Pianguan

• P'ien-kuan (Wade–Giles)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 偏關／偏关 (Piānguān), a clipping of the original name 偏頭關／偏头关 (Piāntóuguān, “Crooked or Isolated Head Pass”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /piənˈɡwɑn/, /pijənˈɡwɑn/

Pianguan

1. Synonym of Piantou, a mountain pass and important gate in Shanxi, China.
2. A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
   • [1976, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East Weekly Supplement‎, →OCLC, page 3:

     Some 60% of the labour forces in Paote, Wuchai, Fanchih, Tai, Wutai and Pienkuan Counties were engaged in the work. Agricultural captial construction is being done on 24,000 sq km in the prefecture (Taiyuan, Shansi provinicial service 2300 gmt 3 Dec 76). Pienkuan County built 22,000 mow of Tachai-type fields in the past year.]

   • 1980, Atlas of Primitive Man in China‎, Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 130:

     In 1958 and 1959 in conjunction with the execution of the Huanghe River (Yellow River) Water Conservancy Project, an investigation of paleolithic stone artifacts was conducted along the Huanghe River, from Togtoh County of the Nei Monggol (Inner Mongolian) Autonomous Region in the north to Pianguan County, Shanxi Province in the south, with Lamawan in Qingshuihe County as the center.

   • 1998 June 2, Jasper Becker, “Axed workers take to streets as province suffers”, in South China Morning Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 August 2023‎:

     In the poor county of Pianguan in northern Shanxi, officials said declining local government revenues meant hardship for teachers and others paid from state coffers.

• Pianguan, P'ien-kuan, Pienkuan at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pianguan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2428, column 3