T'ai-chung
See also: Taichung
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Mandarin 臺中 / 台中 (Táizhōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai²-chung¹.
Proper noun
[edit]T'ai-chung
- Alternative spelling of Taichung
- 1970, Stanley Johnson, Life Without Birth[1], Little, Brown and Company, page 78:
- The first real breakthrough seems to have come with the establishment of the Taiwan Population Studies Center in T'ai-chung in 1962.
. . .
T'ai-chung city is near the West coast of the island about one hundred and twenty miles south of Taipei.
- 1992, Richard Louis Edmonds, “The Changing Geography of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau”, in The Changing Geography of Asia[2], Routledge, →ISBN, page 192:
- Research needs to be done on the feasibility of the proposed combining Tʻai-chung City and Tʻai-chung County to form a third directly administered city.
- 1998, Jack Lenor Larsen, Jack Lenor Larsen- A Weaver's Memoir[3], Harry N. Abrams, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 63:
- Our station was not dreary Taipei but T'ai-chung, to the south and so sunny as to be the film center. At the edge of town, our headquarters was a Japanese-style compound quite adequate for the six Americans living there.
- 2009, Daniel J. Hinkley, The Explorer's Garden[5], Timber Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 287:
- Botanists, in particular Aleck Yang from the National Museum of Natural Science in Tʻai-chung, have removed plants from the wild in an attempt to eradicate the pest and ultimately reestablish a healthy colony in the wild.
Translations
[edit]Taichung — see Taichung
Further reading
[edit]- “T'ai-chung”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “T'ai-chung” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.