Taishan
See also: Tai Shan and T'ai-shan
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) T'ai-shan
Etymology
From Mandarin 臺山／台山 (Táishān).
Proper noun
Taishan
- 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, volume XIX, number 2, Taipei, ISSN 0016-0318, OCLC 1786626, 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, Wang, Yanan, “China sentences 6 foreigners for drugs; Canadian gets death”, in AP News, archived from the original on 18 August 2022:
- 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.
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Synonyms
- (from Cantonese)Toishan, Toisan
- (from Taishanese)Hoisan
Derived terms
- Taishanese
Translations
city in Guangdong
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Anagrams
- Ashanti, Sanhita, Tanisha, anthias, shaitan, tahinas