Taikang

Tai·kang
T1A1I1K5A1N1G2

proper noun

A county of Zhoukou, Henan, China.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A county of Zhoukou, Henan, China.

    The Communist army in Huaiyang, for instance, worked out a defense agreement with a village pact in neighboring Taikang county to jointly protect themselves against puppet troops and local bandits.

    1994, Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 201
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    To the east of Chu-hsien Chen some scores of villages in Tʻung-hsü Hsien were covered with ten feet of water from a branch which afterwards followed the channel of the Chʻing-kang River and inundated Tʻai-kang and Lu-i Hsien.

    [1887 November 24 [1887 November 9], A CORRESPONDENT, “THE YELLOW RIVER.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume XXXIX, number 1060, Shanghai, sourced from Peking, →OCLC, page 563, column 1

    T'ien was a Shun-chih period chin-shih who received highest rating for his performance as magistrate of T'ai-k'ang county in Honan, and was subsequently appointed to a series of capital posts, including Vice Censor-in-chief, and Jr. Vice Minister of Works.

    [1985, Thomas Carl Bartlett, Ku Yen-wu's Response to "the Demise of Human Society", Princeton University, →OCLC, page 83

    Anthropologists in central China are carefully preserving the mummies of a couple accidentally found in a tomb that is believed to date back some 500 years, mainland media reported. The tomb was unearthed in Taikang county in Zhoukou, Henan province by a construction crew that was installing plumbing, the Dahe Daily reported.

    2017 March 27, Laura Zhou, “Construction crew in China unearths tomb with 500-year-old mummies”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2017, Around the Nation

Origin

  1. Mandarin太康
  2. EnglishTaikang

From Mandarin 太康 (Tàikāng).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 太康
  • 太康 (taai³ hong¹)county
Chinese Mandarin 太康
  • 太康 (Tàikāng)county

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APA

Taikang. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Taikang

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“Taikang.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Taikang. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Taikang,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Taikang.

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