Taiping

See also: tàipíng, Tàipíng, Tai Ping, Tai-p'ing, Tai-ping, and Taï-ping

English

Alternative forms

• Tai-ping, Tai-p'ing, T'ai-p'ing
• Tai Ping

Etymology

From Mandarin Chinese 太平 (Tàipíng, literally “Great Peace, Great Pacified Region”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /taɪˈpɪŋ/

Proper noun

Taiping

1. (historical) The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, a rebel state in southern, eastern, and central China during the mid-19th century.
   • [1898, Harlan P. Beach, Dawn on the Hills of Tʻang‎^[1], New York, →OCLC, page 154:

     Chiang-su was the main centre of the great Tʻai Pʻing rebellion, Nanking being the rebel capital from 1853 to 1864.]

   • [2004, Jason C. Kuo, “Introduction”, in Transforming Traditions in Modern Chinese Painting: Huang Pin-hung's Late Work‎^[2], Peter Lang, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 6:

     From the age of thirteen, Huang Pin-hung was able to study paintings in private collections that were being dispersed in the area around his ancestral home in She-hsien, An-hui Province, in the wake of the T’ai-p’ing Rebellion; he was particularly impressed by the works of Tung Ch’i-ch’ang (1555-1636) and Cha Shih-piao (1615-98).]

   • 2015, Valerie M. Hudson, The Hillary Doctrine : Sex and American Foreign Policy‎^[3], Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 81:

     The Nien Rebellion was made up of insurgents who opposed the Qing dynasty, which also had to contend with yet another movement, the Taiping, which was active in the south.

2. Various districts, towns, townships, mountains, and islands in China, Taiwan, and Malaysia.
   1. Taiping Island.
      • 2016 November 20, J.R. Wu, “Taiwan says it plans rescue drills in South China Sea this month”, in Paul Tait, editor, Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 2016-11-21, Emerging Markets‎^[5]:

        Taiwan’s coastguard has said it plans to hold rescue drills in waters around Taipei’s sole territorial holding in the disputed South China Sea at the end of this month, and that the drills could involve its navy.
        The exercises to be held around Itu Aba, known by Taiwan as Taiping, would include drills in rescuing shipwrecked personnel, the coastguard said. More details would be released later, it said in a statement on its website late on Sunday.
        “Currently the navy regularly patrols near Taiping Island. We don’t rule out the navy playing a supporting role in future humanitarian rescue drills being held near Taiping,” the Coast Guard Administration said in the statement.

      • 2022 April 28, “China says Taiwan ‘playing with fire’ over alleged Taiping Island plans”, in Radio Free Asia‎^[6], archived from the original on 28 April 2022‎^[7]:

        Taiping, also known as Itu Aba, is the biggest natural feature in the Spratly islands. It is currently occupied by Taiwan but is also claimed by China, the Philippines and Vietnam.

      • 2023 June 11, Joseph Yeh, “Vietnam's accusation of sovereignty infringement "unacceptable": Taiwan”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[8], archived from the original on 2023-06-11, Politics‎^[9]:

        Taiping, also known as Itu Aba, the largest of the naturally occurring Spratly Islands (Nansha Islands, 南沙群島), lies 1,600 kilometers southwest of Kaohsiung and is administered as part of the special municipality's Cijin District.

   2. A city in Perak, Malaysia.
      • 2015 July 23 [2015 July 22], Tash Aw, “A Return to the Malaysian Village”, in The New York Times‎^[10], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-07-22, Opinion‎^[11]:

        Parit is a small town of roughly 2,000 people in the state of Perak, deep in the rural heartland of Malaysia, with no distinguishing feature other than its attractive location on the banks of a muddy river, which served as the backdrop to a few scenes in the 1999 movie “Anna and the King.” Once a convenient and bustling stopping-off point on the winding road from Ipoh, the state capital, to Taiping in the north, Parit suffered from the construction of the North-South Expressway in the 1990s, which diverted passing trade away from the town.

   3. A district of Taichung, Taiwan.
      • 1981 April 5, “Youths in ROC vow to carry out national goals”, in Free China Weekly‎^[12], volume XXII, number 13, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4:

        In Taiwan province, a gathering attended by 10,000 people was held at Pingling military camp in Taiping village, Taichung county.

      • 2018 September 6, M. Chuang, “登革熱再增7病例 中市6例.高市1例 [CDC Confirms Seven New Dengue Fever Cases]”, in Public Television Service‎^[13], archived from the original on 07 September 2018‎^[14]:

        In tracing the history of the cases, it found that a 60-year-old female patient in Taichung's Taiping District Xinguang Borough began experiencing symptoms including fever in mid-August.

   4. A district of Fuxin, Liaoning, China.
3. (historical) Taiping Prefecture, a former prefecture of China located west of Nanjing during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
4. (uncommon) Victoria Peak in Hong Kong.
   • 2022 March 23, Liu Guangyuan, “Omicron crisis: how solidarity and cooperation will help Hong Kong beat the fifth wave, and emerge stronger”, in South China Morning Post‎^[15], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 March 2022:

     When the pandemic fades, let’s go hiking on Taiping Mountain and enjoy the picturesque scenery of the “Pearl of the Orient” together.

Derived terms

• Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

 

Noun

Taiping (plural Taipings)

1. (historical) A member of the Taiping rebels during the mid-19th century.
   • 2014, Taiping Rebellion‎^[16], Encyclopædia Britannica:

     Under the Taipings, the Chinese language was simplified, and equality between men and women was decreed.

Translations

Taiping

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 太平 (zh) (Tàipíng)

• French: Taiping
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: ताइपिंग (tāipiṅga), थाइफिंग (thāiphiṅga)
• Vietnamese: Thái Bình (vi)

Anagrams

• antipig