Taishan

See also: Tai Shan and T'ai-shan

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Pronunciation

  • enPR: tīʹshänʹ[1]
  • Hyphenation: Tai‧shan

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 臺山 / 台山 (Táishān).

Proper noun

Taishan

  1. A county-level city of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China; a former county of Guangdong, China.
    • 1978 January 8, L. Chen, “What they say of Peiping rule”, in Free China Weekly‎[2], volume XIX, number 2, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
      The Chinese Communist power struggle has not benefited the people. The following verse started circulating in the Taishan area near Canton not long ago.
    • 2019 April 30, Yanan Wang, “China sentences 6 foreigners for drugs; Canadian gets death”, in AP News‎[3], archived from the original on 18 August 2022‎[4]:
      According to the court, Fan Wei and Wu conspired to manufacture and sell the drugs in 2012, and brought the others — described as “drug-making technicians” — on board. Between July and November of that year, the court says, the group set up a “den” in Guangdong’s Taishan city, where they produced and sold more than 63 kilograms of methamphetamine and 365.9 grams of dimethyl amphetamine.
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Etymology 2

From Mandarin 泰山 (Tàishān).

Proper noun

Taishan

  1. A district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.

References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Toishan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1924, column 1: “Mandarin T’ai-shan (tīʹshänʹ) […] Until 1914 called Sunning.”

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