Meanings
alternative Tachi
- Synonym of Daxi (a district of Taoyuan, Taiwan).
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Ta-ch'i.
4 more examples
To the west T'ao-yuan and Ta-ch'i were controlled by Chang-chou people, while to the east Tsu Shih Kung's subjects faced […]
1974, Arthur P. Wolf, “Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors”, in Arthur P. Wolf, editor, Religion and Ritual in Chinese Society, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 132Work began in April 1963 on a Northern Cross-Island Highway between Ta-ch'i in T'ao-yuan hsien and Li-shan, a distance of 166.6 kilometers (103.5 miles).
1980, Yi-Rong Ann Hsu, Clifton W. Pannell, James O. Wheeler, “The Development and Structure of Transportation Networks in Taiwan: 1600–1972”, in Ronald G. Knapp, editor, China's Island Frontier: Studies in the Historical Geography of Taiwan, Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 171Analysis of ten representative cases from Ta-ch'i, Taiwan, reveals greater flexibility of corporate form and function than structural-functional theories would predict.
1984 May, P. Steven Sangren, “Traditional Chinese Corporations: Beyond Kinship”, in The Journal of Asian Studies, volume 43, number 3, →DOI, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2026, pages 391–415It turns out that Ta-ch’i’s conservative, traditional “Chineseness” has been manufactured for reasons that are intimately connected to contemporary, peculiarly Taiwanese politics.
2021 March, Megan Steffen, “Refusing to Inherit “China”: The Troubled Histories and Continuities of an Anthropological Object”, in Transnational Asia, volume 4, number 1, →DOI, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2022, page 16
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Mandarin大溪
- EnglishTa-ch'i
From Mandarin 大溪 (Dàqī), Wade–Giles romanization: Ta⁴-chʻi¹.
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Ta-ch'i. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ta-ch'i
“Ta-ch'i.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ta-ch'i. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Ta-ch'i,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ta-ch'i.
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