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Heping

和平

From 和平 (héping), the everyday Chinese word for "peace": 和 "harmony" plus 平 "level, calm".

Meaning and origin

Heping is literally the Chinese word for peace, and as a given name it belongs to a wave of ideologically charged names Chinese parents chose in the decades after the People's Republic was founded in 1949, alongside…

How to pronounce Heping

MandarinHUH-PING (both rising) /xɤ˧˥pʰiŋ˧˥/

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