Taishan

See also: Tai Shan and T'ai-shan

English

Alternative forms

• T'ai-shan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 臺山 / 台山 (Táishān).

Proper noun

Taishan

1. A county-level city in Jiangmen, Guangdong, China; former county of Guangdong, China.
   • 1978 January 8, L. Chen, “What they say of Peiping rule”, in Free China Weekly‎^[1], volume XIX, number 2, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     The Chinese Communist power struggle has not benefited the people. The following verse started circulating in the Taishan area near Canton not long ago.

   • 2019 April 30, Yanan Wang, “China sentences 6 foreigners for drugs; Canadian gets death”, in AP News‎^[2], archived from the original on 18 August 2022‎^[3]:

     According to the court, Fan Wei and Wu conspired to manufacture and sell the drugs in 2012, and brought the others — described as “drug-making technicians” — on board. Between July and November of that year, the court says, the group set up a “den” in Guangdong’s Taishan city, where they produced and sold more than 63 kilograms of methamphetamine and 365.9 grams of dimethyl amphetamine.

Synonyms

• (from Cantonese) Toishan, Toisan
• (from Taishanese) Hoisan

Derived terms

• Taishanese

Translations

city in Guangdong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 臺山 / 台山 (toi⁴ saan¹)

  Mandarin: 臺山 / 台山 (zh) (Táishān)

• Vietnamese: Đài Sơn (臺山)

Anagrams

• Ashanti, Sanhita, Tanisha, anthias, shaitan, tahinas