Pi

A county of Chengdu, Sichuan, China.

Proper noun

  1. A county of Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
    • Pi County has brought democracy into full play. The peasants there are electing production team leaders and other production team cadres by secret ballot. - 1978 November 27 [1978 November 19], “Szechwan Peasants Elect...
    • [...]water carriers, the sedanchair carriers, the pawn brokers, and even the manure collectors in a market town in Pi county, Szechwan in the late Ch'ing period. - 1983, Cheng-yün Liu, The Ko-lao Hui in Late Imperial...
    • In addition to my own residential complex, I also engaged in ethnographic observation and conducted interviews with Party cadres and local residents in four similar apartment complexes in Dujiangyan and two in...

Origin

From Mandarin 郫 (Pí).

Forms

Pe P'i

Synonyms

Pixian Pe Heen P'i Hsien Pidu