English
Pen-ch'i
Pen-ch'i comes from Mandarin 本溪.
- Mandarinmodern本溪Běnqī
- Englishearliest quotation 1956Pen-ch'i
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Mandarinmodern本溪Běnqī
- Englishearliest quotation 1956Pen-ch'i
Earliest quotation: 1956, Yuan-li Wu, An Economic Survey of Communist China: “Output at the Pen-ch'i mine, which produced somewhat under…”
Every English word from Mandarin 本溪
Today it means
name Synonym of Benxi.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Mandarin 本溪 / Pen-ch'i