Pi

proper nounattested in dialogue

A county of Chengdu, Sichuan, China.

proper noun

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historicalA 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.
[...]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.
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 neighboring Pi County.

Etymology

From Mandarin 郫 (Pí).

physicist · A person whose occupation specializes in the science of…physics · The branch of science concerned with the study of the…pi · The sixteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek…

Pi · A county of Chengdu, Sichuan, China.

pia · The pia mater, the innermost of the meninges that protect the…Pia · A female given name from Latin.pianist · A person who plays the piano, particularly with skill or as…

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