T'ai-chung

See also: Taichung

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 臺中／台中 (Táizhōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai²-chung¹.

Proper noun

T'ai-chung

1. Alternative spelling of Taichung
   • 1970, Stanley Johnson, Life Without Birth‎^[1], Little, Brown and Company, page 78:

     The first real breakthrough seems to have come with the establishment of the Taiwan Population Studies Center in T'ai-chung in 1962.
     . . .
     T'ai-chung city is near the West coast of the island about one hundred and twenty miles south of Taipei.

   • 1992, Richard Louis Edmonds, “The Changing Geography of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau”, in The Changing Geography of Asia‎^[2], Routledge, →ISBN, page 192:

     Research needs to be done on the feasibility of the proposed combining Tʻai-chung City and Tʻai-chung County to form a third directly administered city.

   • 1998, Jack Lenor Larsen, Jack Lenor Larsen- A Weaver's Memoir‎^[3], Harry N. Abrams, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 63:

     Our station was not dreary Taipei but T'ai-chung, to the south and so sunny as to be the film center. At the edge of town, our headquarters was a Japanese-style compound quite adequate for the six Americans living there.

   • 2001, Lu Chi Fa, Becky White, “Working for Mr. Ching”, in Double Luck‎^[4], Holiday House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 187:

     My first civilian job after the military was as a waiter at Club 63, an American noncommissioned officer's club in Tʻai-chung.

   • 2009, Daniel J. Hinkley, The Explorer's Garden‎^[5], Timber Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 287:

     Botanists, in particular Aleck Yang from the National Museum of Natural Science in Tʻai-chung, have removed plants from the wild in an attempt to eradicate the pest and ultimately reestablish a healthy colony in the wild.

Translations

Taichung — see Taichung

Further reading

• “T'ai-chung”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “T'ai-chung” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

Anagrams

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