T'ang

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tang"

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 唐 (Táng), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻang².

Proper noun

T'ang

1. Alternative form of Tang
   • 1933, “Prologue: China in the Seventh Century A.D.”, in Son of Heaven: A Biography of Li Shih-Min, founder of the T’ang Dynasty‎^[2], Cambridge University Press, published 1971, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1:

     The significance of the life and achievements of Li Shih-Min, who reigned from a.d. 626-49 emperor T’ai Tsung of the T’ang dynasty, cannot be appreciated without some knowledge of the age which immediately preceded his birth.

   • 1952, Leonard M. Outerbridge, The Lost Churches of China‎^[3], Philadelphia: Westminster Press, pages 38-39:

     Wylie personally examined the monument in Sian-fu and published a translation of the inscription in Shang-hai in 1854. This included in detail the opinions of Chinese authorities, many historical notes and calligraphical records of the T'ang dynasty.

   • 1965, Alexey Okladnikov, The Soviet Far East in Antiquity: An Archaeological and Historical Study of the Maritime Region of the U.S.S.R.‎^[4], University of Toronto Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 183:

     The balanced planning of the ancient city on the Mu-tan-chiang corresponds on the whole to the layout of the capital of the T'ang Dynasty, Ch'ang-an. The same street plans are found in the ancient capitals of Japan, Nara and Kyoto, built on the Chinese model.

   • 1977, Yee Chiang, China Revisited‎^[5], New York: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 150:

     At Canton I had another trip to make before returning to the United States. I was to fly to Kuei-lin. Kuei-lin had been famous for more than a thousand years for its unusual natural scenery of hills and water. It is situated in the southwest of China's Kwangsi Chuang Autonomous Region. As its scenery had been so well described in many poems since the T'ang and Sung periods, of the seven to thirteenth centuries, I, like thousands of Chinese youngsters who read those poems, had longed to visit it in my young days but never had the opportunity, for it was so far away from my home city. I therefore grasped this chance and asked to have at least two days reserved for the trip.

   • 1986, Nien Cheng, Life and Death in Shanghai‎^[6], published 1995, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 409:

     I spent a quiet day sitting on the balcony in the pale spring sun knitting and reading T'ang poetry.

   • 1990, Arthur Waldron, The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth‎^[7], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 158:

     In Han and T’ang times, he pointed out, when the capital had been at Hsi-an, dynasties had been particularly concerned with the northwest: P’ien-kuan and Shuo-fang.

   • 1991, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, “Chu Hsi's Authorship”, in Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China: A Social History of Writing about Rites‎^[8], Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 112:

     Since the end of the T’ang dynasty, Chu Hsi’s ancestors had been settled in Kuan village of Wu-yüan county, then the southernmost county in She prefecture, Chiang-nan East circuit (currently the northeast corner of Kiangsi province).

   • 2007, Nigel Cawthorne, The Daughter of Heaven‎^[9], Oneworld Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 7:

     According to a biography of her father commissioned by Wu Chao in 699, it was Wu Shih-huo who spurred Li Yüan - the future Emperor Kao-tsu, founder of the T'ang dynasty - to rebel against the Sui.

   • 2021 November 13, Gareth Dale, “From Nero to Net Zero”, in The Ecologist‎^[10], archived from the original on 13 November 2021:

     Far from a dark age, the seventh to fourteenth centuries saw economic and cultural efflorescence, notably the Islamic Golden Age, and T’ang and Song China.

Translations

Tang — see Tang

Further reading

• “T'ang”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “T’ang”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “T'ang” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

Anagrams

• Gant, Gnat, gnat