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Beidou

Syllables: Bei·dou

Beidou proper noun: an urban township in Changhua County, Taiwan. Also the alternative form of BeiDou.

Proper noun (1)

Beidou

  1. An urban township in Changhua County, Taiwan.
    • At 2am on April 22 last year, I departed Chengan Temple (奠安宮) in Changhua County’s Beidou Township (北斗) surrounded by thousands of Matsu devotees.2011 April 7, Noah Buchan, “Walking with Matsu”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2011, Home / Features, page 13
    • At 6:45 a.m. on Tuesday (April 25), a fire broke out at the Lian Hwa Foods Corp. factory on Sihai Road, Section 1 in Changhua County's Beidou Township.2023 April 28, Keoni Everington, “4th Filipino worker dies in central Taiwan food factory fire”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2024, Society

Proper noun (2) capitalized: BeiDou

BeiDou

  1. A Chinese satellite navigation system.

Also used as

Beidou is also the alternative form of BeiDou.

Forms of Beidou

alternative formPeitou

Origin of Beidou

Borrowed from Mandarin 北斗 (Běidǒu).

Questions about Beidou

What does Beidou mean?
Beidou means an urban township in Changhua County, Taiwan.
What part of speech is Beidou?
Beidou is a proper noun.

Words near Beidou in the dictionary

  1. beidellite
  2. beidellites
  3. beidellitic
  4. Beidler
  5. Beidlers
  6. Beidou
  7. Beier
  8. Beierle
  9. Beierles
  10. Beigan
  11. Beigang

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Beidou (page history and authors); BeiDou (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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