Talk:Sandouping

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A fact from Sandouping appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 27 September 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Sandouping, China, has not only the world's largest power plant, but also 1,000 hectares of citrus orchards?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/September.

Pronunciation and Traditional Characters[edit]

The pronunciation and traditional characters were added in this edit: [1], but no justification was given. I think 三斗坪 Sāndǒupíng is an equally plausible pronunciation and traditional form. I am looking for evidence either way. Geographyinitiative (talk) 13:39, 13 February 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Today I made a page for 三斗坪 on wiktonary. We currently have the Mandarin pronunciation as Sāndòupíng and the traditional characters as 三鬥坪 (with a calligraphic jpg of the traditional form to boot), but I think it may be wrong- it could be Sāndǒupíng with the traditional and simplified forms both being 三斗坪. I probably need to find a pre-1956 book that talks about the area, and I'm looking on archive.org.

It sounds like it could be dǒu and not dòu, but I can't tell for sure because of the sandhi/变调 here: [2] [3]

If it is dǒu and not dòu, then 鬥 can't be the traditional form, and I will need to delete 三鬥坪. Geographyinitiative (talk) 14:09, 13 February 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

url=https://v.qq.com/x/page/a0314mssbf2.html |script-title=zh:三斗坪镇园艺村书记刘晓华|trans-title=Secretary Liu Xiaohua of Yuanyi Village in Sandouping Town|date=17 July 2016|quote=照片的主人公叫刘晓华,是三斗(dǒu)坪园艺村党支部书记(at 0:10){...}然后，又马不停蹄地赶到三斗(dǒu)坪镇中心幼儿园旁，组织人员(at 0:50)|accessdate=14 February 2019

url=https://v.qq.com/x/page/b0314muaygv.html |script-title=zh:三斗坪镇黄陵庙村书记杨年建|trans-title=Secretary Yang Nianjian of Huanglingmiao Village in Sandouping Town|date=17 July 2016|quote=在三斗(dǒu)坪镇(at 0:09){...}|accessdate=14 February 2019

If the pronunciation of the character '斗' were 'dǒu' here, it would be changed by tone sandhi with 坪 (píng) into a half-third tone (半上聲}. It definitely does not seem to be read with a fourth tone. Geographyinitiative (talk) 10:51, 14 February 2019 (UTC) modifiedReply[reply]