Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Tai'an.
On the morning of 6 May Chiang and his armies withdrew southward toward T'ai-an, where a new Kuomintang regime in Shantung was established.
1978, David D. Buck, Urban Change in China, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1622 more examples
A group of inscriptions on three precipices, including an incantation and partial text of the Paramita sutra and the Maha-prajna-paramita sutra, was engraved in A.D. 570 on the Tsu-lai Mountain in T’ai-an.
1962, Tsuen-hsuin Tsien, Written on Bamboo and Silk: the Beginnings of Chinese Books and Inscriptions, University of Chicago Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 80When climbing the 7,000 steps of T'ai Shan, from the town of T'ai-an to the Temple of the Jade Emperor at its peak, the visitor encounters temples, groves of cypress and pine, waterfalls and cascades.
1987, Jennifer Westwood, editor, Mysterious Places, Marshall Editions Ltd, published 1998, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 18
Origin
- Mandarin泰安
- EnglishT'ai-an
From Mandarin 泰安 (Tài'ān), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai⁴-an¹.
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