Beinan

See also: bèinàn and Bēinán

English

Alternative forms

• Peinan, Pei-nan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 卑南 (Bēinán).

Pronunciation

• enPR: bāʹnǎnʹ

Proper noun

Beinan

1. A rural township in Taitung County, Taiwan.
   • 1982, China Report: Political, Sociological and Military Affairs‎^[2], numbers 355-360, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 215:

     […] 6) Bureaus for appeasing tenants engaged in reclamation and cultivation of the wastelands were established in Beinan, Qilai and Puli. ("Private Law of Taiwan, Property Rights," Vol 1 pp 9-12)

   • 2015 November 11, “Ministry to aid UNESCO bid for caves”, in Taipei Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 October 2022, Taiwan News, page 5‎^[4]:

     If Basiandong is added to the list, it will be the third potential world heritage site in the county, after the Peinan Archeological Site in Beinan Township (卑南) — the largest-known ancient stone coffin burial ground in the Pacific Rim area — and Orchid Island (蘭嶼, also known as Lanyu).

   • 2021 September 12, “Typhoon alert lifted: Chanthu leaves Taiwan relatively unscathed”, in Taiwan English News‎^[5], archived from the original on 12 September 2021‎^[6]:

     In Taitung County some damage to banana crops in Beinan Township was reported, but crop losses overall were not large, County Magistrate Rao Ching-ling said.

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

Synonyms

• Pinan
• (from Hokkien) Pilam
• (from Japanese) Hinan

Translations

rural township

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卑南 (zh) (Bēinán)