Tayeh

T1A1Y4E1H4

A form of daye — A surname.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Daye.

    The Hanyeping Company owns a large part of the Tayeh iron mines, eighty miles east of Hangkow, with which there are water and rail connections.

    1922, Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, →OL, page 132
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    The Yangtze Valley is rich in mines. Iron mines it has in plenty, but none finer in richness and the quality of the ore produced than the Tayeh mines. These mines are located about 19 miles from the south bank of the Yangtze River, at a point nearly 60 miles east of Hankow. A railway now runs from the mines to the river, where some very businesslike piers have been constructed. It was from the Tayeh mines that Chang Chih Tung obtained the ore for his new ironworks.

    1919, Frederic Coleman, The Far East Unveiled: An Inner History of Events in Japan and China in the Year 1916, Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, page 49

    Plans have been made by the National Resources Commission for the rehabilitation and expansion of three plants in Taiwan, at Kao-hsiung, Tsu-Tung and Suao (the latter is poorly located and was badly damaged by bombing); by the Kwa Hsin Cement Company for the development of a new plant at Tayeh, for the rehabilitation and expansion from 200 to 500 tons per day of the North China Cement Company, and the development of the Hunan Cement Company with a capacity of 500 tons per day.

    1949, United States Relations With China, United States Department of State, page 796

    Supported by the rich supply of iron ore and coal from the neighboring towns of Tayeh and Huangshih, a major industrial complex had grown up by the 1930's.

    1969, John Gardner, “Urban Bureaucratic Elite in Communist China”, in A. Doak Barnett, editor, Chinese Communist Politics in Action, University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 221

    CBI: In China, Fourteenth Air Force sends 10 B-25 Mitchells and 11 P-40s to attack the docks at Hankow and the Wuchang cotton mills. A group of three P-38 Lightnings bomb supply depots at Tayeh and strafe warehouses and barracks at Yangsin.

    2008, Keith D. Dickson, World War II Almanac (Almanacs of American Wars), volume 1, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 269

Origin

  1. Mandarin大冶
  2. EnglishTayeh

From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 大冶 (Dàyě).

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