Taitung
See also: T'aitung and T'ai-tung
English
Alternative forms
- (also from Wade–Giles) T'aitung, T'ai-tung
- (from pinyin) Taidong
Etymology
From Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 臺東／台東 (Táidōng, literally “eastern Taiwan”) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai²-tung¹, from Taitung Prefecture (臺東直隸州), created ca. 1887.
Pronunciation
- enPR: tīʹdo͝ongʹ[1]
Proper noun
Taitung
- A county in eastern Taiwan
- 1903, James W. Davidson, The Island of Formosa Past and Present, page 244:
- A thorough reorganization and redivisioning of the island was now necessitated. In former days, Formosa comprised one complete prefecture, four districts and three sub-prefectures. Now the island became a province with four prefectures (Taipeh, Taiwan, Tainan, and Taitung), eleven districts, and three sub-prefectures.
- 1989 February 1, “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1988”, in United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Government Printing Office, page 785:
- In 1987 and 1988, 12 deaths among prisoners were questioned by Taiwan human rights groups. Incidents occurred in prisons and detention centers under the jurisdiction of both civil and military authorities. In one instance, eight prison guards were convicted in July for torturing to death a Taitung detention center prisoner. They received sentences ranging from 10 months to 4 years.
- 1998, Robert Storey, Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 4th edition, →ISBN, OCLC 970524541, OL 8314799M, page 14:
- In 1995, an earthquake demolished a school in Taitung County, but fortunately this occurred at night when no students were inside.
- 2004 January 1, Wei-Chuan Chiang, Chi-Lu Sun, Su-Zan Yeh, “Age and growth of sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) in waters off eastern Taiwan”, in Fishery Bulletin, volume 102, number 1, page 251:
- During the 1990s the annual landings of sailfish off Taiwan ranged between 600 and 2000 metric tons, of which approximately 54% came from waters off Taitung (eastern Taiwan).
- 2010, Mei-Ling Hopgood, Lucky Girl, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, →ISBN, LCCN 2008052220, OCLC 435422239, OL 28287158M, page 36:
- The gray sand and rock coastline of Taitung county is almost 144 miles long, but few people live there, thanks to its penchant for typhoons and earthquakes. The Chinese did not establish themselves in the region until the late nineteenth century, and even by the 1970s few Mandarin-speaking Nationalist Chinese had made their way south to Taitung.
- 2016, Air Defense Options for Taiwan, RAND Corporation, →ISBN, OCLC 946025304, OL 27436252M, page 17:
- Taiwan could opt to conserve some of its fighters. It has an air base, Hualien, connected to a shelter tunneled into a mountain that is large enough to house 200 aircraft. Another smaller second facility, Taitung, also has been reported.²⁴
. . .
²⁴The larger of the two shelters is called Jiashan (also spelled Chashan), an aircraft sanctuary tunneled into a mountain next to Hualien air base, while a smaller shelter is located at the Taitung air base (Wendell Minnick, "Taiwan's Hidden Base Will Safeguard Aircraft," Defense News, May 3, 2010).
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- the administrative seat of this county
- 1958 August 12, Mrs. Peter J. Pankratz, “Visit to Orchid Island”, in The Mennonite, volume 73, number 31, page 485:
- Early in the morning the group left by train for Taitung, the port of exit from where they would take a boat over the choppy ocean.
- 1973 October 8, “Island Beautiful With Much to See and Do”, in Newsweek, page 21A:
- The "other cities" of Taiwan have their unique attractions: Hualien and Taitung on the remote east coast, quiet and friendly.
- 1982 July 4, “Newly widened railway boost for East Taiwan”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 26, Taipei, ISSN 0016-0318, OCLC 1786626, page 1:
- Before the widening of the eastern line, trains from Taipei could only travel as far as Hualien. Passengers going on to Taitung, had to either change trains or take a bus, which meant an additional three and a half hours journey.
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Synonyms
- (abbreviation) TTT
- (from Japanese) Taito
Translations
county in Taiwan
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References
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Taitung or T'ai-tung”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, page 1865, column 1
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Taitung”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 3087, column 1
Anagrams
- tatuing, tauting
French
Proper noun
Taitung ?
- Taitung (a city in Taiwan)
German
Proper noun
Taitung n (proper noun, genitive Taitungs or (optionally with an article) Taitung)
- Taitung (a city in Taiwan)
Spanish
Proper noun
Taitung ?
- Taitung (a city in Taiwan)