T'ai-an
See also: taian and Tai'an
English
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Map including T'AI-AN (DMA, 1975)
Etymology
From Mandarin 泰安 (Tài'ān), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai⁴-an¹.
Proper noun
T'ai-an
- Alternative form of Tai'an
- 1962, Tsuen-hsuin Tsien, Written on Bamboo and Silk: the Beginnings of Chinese Books and Inscriptions, University of Chicago Press, LCCN 61-11897, OCLC 6210098, page 80:
- A group of inscriptions on three precipices, including an incantation and partial text of the Paramita sutra and the Maha-prajna-paramita sutra, was engraved in A.D. 570 on the Tsu-lai Mountain in T’ai-an.
- 1978, David D. Buck, Urban Change in China, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, LCCN 76-11309, OCLC 462185392, page 162:
- On the morning of 6 May Chiang and his armies withdrew southward toward T'ai-an, where a new Kuomintang regime in Shantung was established.
- 1987, Jennifer Westwood, editor, Mysterious Places, Marshall Editions Ltd, published 1998, →ISBN, OCLC 970599842, page 18:
- When climbing the 7,000 steps of T'ai Shan, from the town of T'ai-an to the Temple of the Jade Emperor at its peak, the visitor encounters temples, groves of cypress and pine, waterfalls and cascades.
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Translations
Tai'an — see Tai'an
Anagrams
- Anita, NAATI, Tania, Tiaan, Tiana, tania