Taikang

See also: Tàikāng

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 太康 (Tàikāng).

Proper noun

Taikang

1. A county of Zhoukou, Henan, China.
   • [1887 November 24 [1887 November 9], A CORRESPONDENT, “THE YELLOW RIVER.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume XXXIX, number 1060, Shanghai, sourced from Peking, →OCLC, page 563, column 1:

     To the east of Chu-hsien Chen some scores of villages in Tʻung-hsü Hsien were covered with ten feet of water from a branch which afterwards followed the channel of the Chʻing-kang River and inundated Tʻai-kang and Lu-i Hsien.]

   • [1985, Thomas Carl Bartlett, Ku Yen-wu's Response to "the Demise of Human Society"‎^[1], Princeton University, →OCLC, page 83:

     T'ien was a Shun-chih period chin-shih who received highest rating for his performance as magistrate of T'ai-k'ang county in Honan, and was subsequently appointed to a series of capital posts, including Vice Censor-in-chief, and Jr. Vice Minister of Works.]

   • 1994, Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan‎^[2], Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 201:

     The Communist army in Huaiyang, for instance, worked out a defense agreement with a village pact in neighboring Taikang county to jointly protect themselves against puppet troops and local bandits.

   • 2017 March 27, Laura Zhou, “Construction crew in China unearths tomb with 500-year-old mummies”, in South China Morning Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 March 2017, Around the Nation‎^[4]:

     Anthropologists in central China are carefully preserving the mummies of a couple accidentally found in a tomb that is believed to date back some 500 years, mainland media reported.
     The tomb was unearthed in Taikang county in Zhoukou, Henan province by a construction crew that was installing plumbing, the Dahe Daily reported.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 太康 (zh) (Tàikāng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• tikanga