Tinpak

English

Alternative forms

• Tien-pak

Etymology

From the Postal Romanization of Cantonese 電白／电白 (din⁶ baak⁶).

Pronunciation

• enPR: dēnʹbäkʹ

Proper noun

Tinpak

1. (dated) Synonym of Dianbai: the Cantonese-derived name.
   • 1895, E. J. Eitel, Europe in China: The History of Hongkong from the Beginning to the Year 1882‎^[3], London: Luzac & Company, →OCLC, page 242:

     Junks from Pakhoi, Hoihow and Tinpak, in the south-west, commenced in 1846 a prosperous trade with Hongkong.

   • 1923, Maryknoll Mission Letters China‎^[4], volume 1, New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 195:

     After two days in Shekkwat, we went on to Kaushing, only an hour away. This was formerly the prefectural city of Tinpak, before Maoming came into existence. The old walls are still standing, but as it was over five hundred years ago that Tinpak was divided, nobody knows anything about the old town.

   • 1945 July 20, “Chinese Recapture Jap Base in Kwangsi”, in The Bombay Chronicle‎^[5], volume XXXIII, number 171, Bombay, →OCLC, page 5:

     In South China, the Chinese after recapturing Tinpak to disrupt the Japanese communications along the coastal highway between the Liuchow peninsula and Canton, have now advanced to a point 9 miles east of Tinpak.

   • 1975, Peter Ward Fay, “Peking in Earnest”, in The Opium War 1840-1842‎^[6], Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, published 1997, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 140:

     A Jardine Matheson schooner came in from the east coast with $15,000 in treasure, the proceeds of hardly more than forty chests, and there seemed nothing better to do than send her to join others on the west coast, for it was thought some opium might still be disposed of at Tinpak and other stations between Saint John Island (Shangch’uan) and Hainan.

   • 2005, A.B. Sainsbury, F.L. Phillips, The Royal Navy, Day by Day‎^[7], 3rd edition, Sutton Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 380, column 2:

     1849 Boats of Medea captured and burned five pirate junks at Tinpak.