Meanings
- historicalSynonym of Dakekan: the Japanese-derived name (modern Daxi, a district of Taoyuan, Taiwan).
8 M. to the S.E. is the old town of Taikokan (Tofoham) amid pretty scenery.
1928, T. Philip Terry, Terry's Guide to the Japanese Empire, Revised edition, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Sep 20262 more examples
Hab.—Formosa; 3 (1 ♂, 2 ♀) specimens were collected at Toroën, Heirin and Taikokan by the author.
1932 February 29, S. Matsumura, “A Revision of the Palaearctic and Oriental Typhlocybid-Genera with Descriptions of New Species and New Genera”, in Insecta Matsumurana^(https://web.archive.org/web/20251201062108/https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/repo/huscap/all/9234/6(3)_p93-120.pdf), volume 6, number 3, →ISSN, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2025, page 111Hashiguchi Bunzō, an official who led an early expedition to the aboriginal district of Taikokan (Dakekan), later noted that [...]
2010, Robert Thomas Tierney, Tropics of Savagery: The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame, University of California Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 39Synonyms: Dakekan
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Dakekan: the Japanese-derived name (modern Daxi, a district of Taoyuan, Taiwan).
Origin
- Japanese大嵙崁
- EnglishTaikokan
From Japanese 大嵙崁.
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