Meanings
- alternativeAlternative spelling of Taichung.
My first civilian job after the military was as a waiter at Club 63, an American noncommissioned officer's club in Tʻai-chung.
2001, Lu Chi Fa, Becky White, “Working for Mr. Ching”, in Double Luck, Holiday House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1874 more examples
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.
1970, Stanley Johnson, Life Without Birth, Little, Brown and Company, page 78Research 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.
1992, Richard Louis Edmonds, “The Changing Geography of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau”, in The Changing Geography of Asia, Routledge, →ISBN, page 192Our 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.
1998, Jack Lenor Larsen, Jack Lenor Larsen- A Weaver's Memoir, Harry N. Abrams, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 63Botanists, 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.
2009, Daniel J. Hinkley, The Explorer's Garden, Timber Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 287
Origin
- Mandarin臺中 /台中
- EnglishT'ai-chung
From Mandarin 臺中 /台中 (Táizhōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai²-chung¹.
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