Tai'erzhuang

Tai·er·zhuang

proper noun

A district of Zaozhuang, Shandong, China.

Meanings

proper noun

alternative also Taierzhuang · alternative Taierhchwang · alternative T'ai-erh-chuang · alternative T'ai-êrh-chuang

  1. A district of Zaozhuang, Shandong, China.

    By October 31, the first period construction work between Kaotze, on the Yangtze River bank, and Taierhchuang, on the Shantung-Kiangsu provincial border, is expected to be completed.

    [1944 September 5 [1944 July 17], “Peking”, in Strategic Objectives in Japanese Installations with Index of Place Names, number 1, Office of Strategic Services, sourced from Tokyo, China Continent, page 20
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    Highly placed Japanese spokesmen, shocked by their reverse at Tai'erzhuang, and that at the hands of "secondary" troops, resorted to their favored way of dealing with setbacks. They denied for days not only the Chinese had won back Tai'erzhuang, but that the important rail knot at Xuzhou, of which Tai'erzhuang was an outpost, had never been a Japanese goal in the campaign, which of course it was - and continued to be.

    2005, Israel Epstein, History Should Not Be Forgotten, Beijing: China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, page 67

Origin

  1. Mandarin臺兒莊 /台兒莊 /台儿庄
  2. EnglishTai'erzhuang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 臺兒莊 /台兒莊 /台儿庄 (Tái'érzhuāng).

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 臺兒莊 /台儿庄, 台兒莊 /台儿庄
  • 臺兒莊 /台儿庄 (Tái'érzhuāng)district in Zaozhuang, Shandong, China
  • 台兒莊 /台儿庄 (Tái'érzhuāng)district in Zaozhuang, Shandong, China
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