Meanings
proper noun
- A district of Jinzhong, Shanxi, China, formerly a county.
Education docs not alienate the youth from their class and rural roots. Young school graduates in Taiku county, Shansi province, return to their home villages to become commune farmers.
[1966 January, Soong Ching Ling, Yuan Ling, “Sixteen Years of Liberation”, in China Reconstructs, volume XV, number I, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 2
Origin
- Mandarin太谷
- EnglishTaigu
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 太谷.
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 太谷
- 太谷district
Chinese Mandarin 太谷
- 太谷district
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