Peinan

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A form of Beinan — A rural township in Taitung County, Taiwan.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Beinan.

    The stone slab coffins excavated from the site at Peinan, Taitung County, total over 1,000 in all.

    1998, Li-na Chen, A Visit Into Taiwan's History & Culture, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 8
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    In 1945, Kanaseki and Kokubu excavated a site near Peinan, close to the city of Taitung (Kanaseki and Kokubu 1957).

    1969, Richard J. Pearson, “The Prehistoric Sequence in Eastern Taiwan”, in Archaeology of the Ryukyu Islands: A Regional Chronology from 3000 B.C. to the Historic Period, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 103

    The final stretch of the railway runs from Fangliao in Pingtung County through the central mountain range to Peinan in Taitung County and entails the constructon^([sic – meaning construction]) of 34 tunnels covering 37.45 kilometers, 40 major bridges covering 5.05 kilometers, and 118 smaller bridges over 1,932 meters.

    Free China Weekly

    1983 December 4, “Southern Link RR Completion Set For 1988”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XXIV, number 48, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 1

    Children from Peinan Township in southeastern Taiwan’s Taitung County pose in front of a 9-meter-tall teddy bear-shaped balloon in this undated photo. The bear will be featured in various Christmas celebrations. (Courtesy of Peinan Township Office)

    2016 December 15, “Giant Teddy”, in Taiwan Today, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2020

    Although the February 28 incident did not cause great turmoil in Taitung, the situation was tense due to very few troops and county officials. The crowd surrounded Hsieh Chen’s official residence on March 3. Under the protection of the aborigines, Hsieh Chen left Peinan Township and then fled to Chulu mountain.

    The February 28 Incident in Taitung

    2018, Chun-ying (吳俊瑩) Wu, “二二八事件在臺東 [The February 28 Incident in Taitung]”, in 台灣文獻, volume 69, number 4, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2022, page 131

    Puyuma [pyu] is an Austronesian language spoken in southeastern Taiwan, specifically in Taitung City (臺東市) and Peinan Township (卑南鄉) in Taitung County (臺東縣).

    2018, Cataloguing the World's Endangered Languages, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cataloguing_the_World_s_Endangered_Langu/CVRSDwAAQBAJ?gbpv=1&pg=PT33

Origin

Borrowed from Mandarin 卑南 (Bēinán) Wade–Giles romanization: Pei¹-nan².

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