Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Tai'erzhuang.
APR. 7. After a 17-day battle, the Chinese won their first victory against the Japanese at T'ai-erh-chuang in Shantung Province.
1997, Dorothy Perkins, Japan Goes to War: a Chronology of Japanese Military Expansion from the Meiji era to the attack on Pearl Harbor (1868-1941), →OCLC, page 1332 more examples
In the meantime, the long-awaited battle of Hsuchow had started (inauspiciously with the Japanese taking the small walled town to the northeast, T'ai-erh-chuang).
1979, Guy S. Alitto, The Last Confucian: Liang Shu-ming and the Chinese Dilemma of Modernity, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 293In early April 1938, for example, as the Japanese converged on the key transportation centre of Hsu-chou in northern Kiangsu, General Li Tsung-jen’s forces enticed the attackers into a trap in the walled town of T'ai-erh-chuang.
1986, John K. Fairbank, Albert Feuerwerker, editors, The Cambridge History of China, volume 13, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 555
Origin
- Mandarin臺兒莊 /台兒莊 /台儿庄
- EnglishT'ai-erh-chuang
From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 臺兒莊 /台兒莊 /台儿庄 (Tʻai²-êrh²-chuang¹).
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