Tai'erzhuang

See also: Taierzhuang

English

Alternative forms

• Taierzhuang (also from Hanyu Pinyin)
• Taierhchwang (Postal Romanization)
• T'ai-erh-chuang, T'ai-êrh-chuang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 臺兒莊 / 台兒莊 / 台儿庄 (Tái'érzhuāng).

Proper noun

Tai'erzhuang

1. A district of Zaozhuang, Shandong, China.
   • [1944 September 5 [1944 July 17], “Peking”, in Strategic Objectives in Japanese Installations with Index of Place Names, number 1, Office of Strategic Services, sourced from Tokyo, China Continent, page 20:

     By October 31, the first period construction work between Kaotze, on the Yangtze River bank, and Taierhchuang, on the Shantung-Kiangsu provincial border, is expected to be completed.]

   • 2005, Israel Epstein, History Should Not Be Forgotten‎^[1], Beijing: China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, page 67:

     Highly placed Japanese spokesmen, shocked by their reverse at Tai'erzhuang, and that at the hands of "secondary" troops, resorted to their favored way of dealing with setbacks. They denied for days not only the Chinese had won back Tai'erzhuang, but that the important rail knot at Xuzhou, of which Tai'erzhuang was an outpost, had never been a Japanese goal in the campaign, which of course it was - and continued to be.

Translations

district in Zaozhuang, Shandong, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 臺兒莊 / 台儿庄 (zh) (Tái'érzhuāng), 台兒莊 / 台儿庄 (zh) (Tái'érzhuāng)

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