Meanings
alternative An-pêng
- Synonym of Anping.
Next morning, however, Commander Bax of H.M.S. Dwarf generously gave me a passage up to An-peng, the Port of Taiwan-fu.
1915, William Campbell, Sketches from Formosa, Marshall Brothers Limited, →OCLC, →OL, page 161 more example
The dried Lung-ngan or Geng-Geng, which is largely exported from An-pêng, the port of Tainan, is described as the longan fruit (Nephelium Longana).
[1899, “Lungan Pulp”, in Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, →JSTOR, page 219Synonyms: Anping
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Anping.
Origin
- Hokkien安平
- EnglishAn-peng
From Hokkien 安平 (An-pêng) for the place in Taiwan.
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