T'ai-tung
See also: Taitung
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 臺東／台東 (Táidōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai²-tung¹.
Proper noun
T'ai-tung
- Alternative spelling of Taitung
- 1976, Huang Ch'un-ming, “A Flower in the Rainy Night”, in Earl Wieman, transl.; Joseph S. M. Lau, editor, Chinese Stories from Taiwan: 1960-1970, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 75-43971, OCLC 603115333, OL 5214089M, page 199:
- Ying-ying answered apologetically, feeling that she had been reprimanded. “I got married last year in T’ai-tung.
- 1979, Peter Bellwood, Man's Conquest of the Pacific, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 78-59765, OCLC 802930042, OL 4744737M, page 70:
- In eastern Taiwan, three caves in Tʻai-tung county have recently produced stratified collections of unifacially flaked pebble choppers and flakes, dating from an unknown period down to about 3000 B.C.
- 1991, Miyo Idei, “Sowing With Tears and Reaping With a Joyful Cry”, in The Watchtower, volume 112, number 1, page 13:
- Shortly thereafter, Brother Jones left for T'ai-tung, across the mountains, with my husband as his interpreter.
- 2003, “Taiwan”, in Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography, volume 5, Thomson Gale, →ISBN, OCLC 52348849, OL 27036101M, page 63:
- The Central Range plunges abruptly to the sea along the eastern coast, except for an area north of Tʻai-tung, where the Tʻai-tung Rift Valley and a short coastal ridge farther to the east are located.
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Translations
Taitung — see Taitung
Further reading
- T’ai-tung, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Anagrams
- tatuing, tauting