Tailu

See also: T'ai-lu

English

Location of Tailu

Alternative forms

• T'ai-lu (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 苔菉 (Táilù).

Proper noun

Tailu

1. A town in Lianjiang, Fuzhou, Fujian, China.
   • 1981, Beijing Review‎^[1], volume 24, →OCLC, page 17:

     There is a large surplus of labour in Tailu commune of Lianjiang County, Fujian Province.

   • 1995 August 10 [1995 August 9], ARATS, quotee, “ARATS Condemns Killing of Mainland Fisherman”, in Daily Report: China, number 95-154, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing XINHUA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 68, columns 1–2‎^[2]:

     At about 0110 on 6 August, four crew members of the "Minlianyu 0210" fishing boat of Nan Village of Lianjiang County’s Tailu Town were looking for fishing tackle near the Latou Reef south of the Xiyin Island, when troops of the Taiwan authorities on Xiyin Island fired at them and 28-year old^{[sic – meaning year-old]} captain Chen Yingtong of the fishing boat was wounded twice in the left side of his chest.

   • 1998, Summary of World Broadcasts: Asia, Pacific‎^[3], numbers 3202-3214, BBC Monitoring, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     The fishing vessel and crew members returned to Tailu township in the early morning of 12th April.[...]two metal-cased trawlers from Tailu township, Lianjiang County[...]

   • 2004 August 24, “17 Killed as Bus Plummets Down Slope”, in China Internet Information Center‎^[4], archived from the original on 24 August 2004‎^[5]:

     The bus was traveling from Tailu Town, in Lianjiang County, to Fuzhou City. Most of the passengers were residents of Tailu Town.

   • 2014, Pengli Zhu, Feng Huang, Fan Lin, Qiaowei Li, Yin Yuan, Zhonghai Gao, Falin Chen, “The Relationship of Retinal Vessel Diameters and Fractal Dimensions with Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Risk Factors”, in PLOS One‎^[6], volume 9, number 9, →DOI, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2, column 1:

     The villages of Tailu, Beijiao, and Xiubang in the Tailu township in Lienchiang county and Kungtung, Kunghsi, Yantai, and Wenwo in Haidao township in Xiapu county in Fujian Province were randomly selected for this cross-sectional investigation, which took place from July, 2011 to November, 2011.[...]
     Inclusion criteria were voluntary participants aged 30 years or more living in Tailu and Haidao townships for more than 5 years.

   • 2018 July 11, “Residents evacuated, boats moored as Typhoon Maria approaches China”, in Yurou, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[7], archived from the original on July 15, 2018:

     Fishermen reinforce the fishing gear on the shore in Houwan Village of Tailu Town in Lianjiang County, southeast China's Fujian Province, July 10, 2018, as Typhoon Maria, the eighth typhoon this year, approaches the Chinese coast.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tailu.
2. A village in Tailu, Lianjiang, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
   • 2014, Pengli Zhu, Feng Huang, Fan Lin, Qiaowei Li, Yin Yuan, Zhonghai Gao, Falin Chen, “The Relationship of Retinal Vessel Diameters and Fractal Dimensions with Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Risk Factors”, in PLOS One‎^[8], volume 9, number 9, →DOI, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2, column 1:

     The villages of Tailu, Beijiao, and Xiubang in the Tailu township in Lienchiang county and Kungtung, Kunghsi, Yantai, and Wenwo in Haidao township in Xiapu county in Fujian Province were randomly selected for this cross-sectional investigation, which took place from July, 2011 to November, 2011.

Translations

town; village

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 苔菉 (Táilù)

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Anagrams

• Tulia