Lingshi

• Ling-shih (Wade–Giles)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 靈石／灵石.

• IPA^(key): /(ˈ)lɪŋˈʃi/

Lingshi

1. A county of Jinzhong, Shanxi, China.
   • 1995, Tanaka Norio, “A Memorial to Three War Buddies”, in Beth Cary, transl., edited by Frank Gibney, Sensō: The Japanese Remember the Pacific War‎, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 78:

     On 28 December 1937, a force of twenty-five men led by a platoon commander was dispatched to a village in Lingshi County, Shanxi Province, for pacification activity and to scout enemy movements.

   • 2007 January 21, Chris Buckley, Guo Shipeng, Vivi Lin, “China outcry grows over beating death of reporter”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 13 May 2022, World News:

     Rescuers prepare to go down a coal mine at Nanshan Colliery in Lingshi county, China, November 15, 2006. Chinese police are investigating the death of a reporter beaten up while probing the country's deadly coal mines, media reported on Wednesday amid a growing outcry.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lingshi.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Lingshi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1746, column 1

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