Taihoku
English
Map of eastern Taipei (labeled as TAIHOKU) and surrounding region (AMS, 1944)
Etymology
From Japanese 台北 (Taihoku).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /taɪˈhəʊku/, /taɪˈhɒku/
Proper noun
Taihoku
- (historical, in reference to Japanese Taiwan) Synonym of Taipei: the Japanese-derived name
- Taihoku Imperial University (original name of National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan)
- 1897 June 9, “Oriental News”, in The Daily Colonist, volume LXXVII, number 153, Victoria, British Columbia, ISSN 0839-4261, OCLC 1115071851, page 8, column 4:
- Vernacular papers report that dispatches have been received by the Colonial Department from Formosa stating that 200 cases of black plague have broken out at Taihoku and Taiwan.
- 1903, James W. Davidson, “The Formosan Camphor Industry”, in The Island of Formosa Past and Present, page 423:
- Formerly there was no plant in Formosa for treating the oil ; but the Formosa government has now provided, in its Camphor establishment at Taihoku (Taipeh), an apparatus for this purpose.
- 1966 May 14, “Letter dated 14.5.1966 from Shri Prasanta Sengupta”, in Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Declassified Files, page 17:
- The conclusion reached by the Enquiry Committee was that Netaji met his death as a result of an air crash at Taihoku air-field in Formosa on August 18, 1945 and his ashes are now at Renkoji temple in Tokyo.
- 2018 May 24, Keoni Everington, “Photo of the Day: WWII allied bombing of Taiwan Presidential Office”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 1 September 2019, retrieved 2 December 2020:
- The raid, known as the Taihoku Air Raid, took place on May 31, 1945 and was part of the largest allied air raid on Japanese-occupied Taipei (then known as Taihoku) during WWII.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Taihoku.
Further reading
- Taihoku at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “Taihoku” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.