tachi

plural tachis

1. A pre-katana style Japanese sword, characterized by a longer blade with more curvature.

1. alternativeAlternative form of Ta-ch'i (Daxi district of Taoyuan, Taiwan).

   A push-car railway passes from Mawnto to Kuansi for a total distance of 9 km. A highway, 20 km in length, links Kuansi and Chupei which is another station on the main railway. The part in the Tachi region embraces all the northeastern part of the coal field.

   臺灣省地質調查所

   1951 December 29, C. S. Ho [何春蓀], T. L. Hsu [徐鐵良], “Geology of the Chialo Coal Field, Sinchu, Taiwan [臺灣新竹縣嘉樂煤田地質]”, in Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Taiwan [臺灣省地質調查所彙刊], number 3, Geological Survey of Taiwan [臺灣省地質調查所], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2

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   This month Sinorama continues its series on Taiwan's lesser known scenic areas by introducing the area between Tachi and Paling [translating 巴陵 (Bālíng)] along the northern East-West Cross-Island Highway.[…]In Tachi we bought some of the town's famous dried tofu.

   1986 September 29, Elaine Chen, “The Northern Cross-Island Highway Diary”, in Peter Hill, transl., Sinorama, Government Information Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Sep 2026

   Another crucial locality is Tachi, Taoyuan area (TC in Figure 1), which is upstream of Shulin and Yingge sites (Buckeridge et al. 2018). Argillaceous sandstones dominate the Tachi locality, and fossils from the Dahan Riverbed include corals, barnacles, molluscs, sea urchins, well-preserved crabs and their caves, and fishes.

   2021 [2019], Chien-Hsiang Lin, Chi-Wei Chien, Shih-Wei Lee, Chih-Wei Chang, “Fish fossils of Taiwan: a review and prospection”, in Historical Biology, volume 33, number 9, →DOI, page 1365, column 1