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Peitou

Peitou is the alternative form of Beidou.

Peitou is the alternative form of Beitou.

Meaning of Beidou

Proper noun

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

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Meaning of Beitou

Proper noun

Beitou

  1. A district of Taipei, Taiwan.
    • Stone lion-dog statues dating back to the Japanese colonial period were vandalised in Taipei over the weekend by the same pro-mainland China activist who last month beheaded a statue symbolising the island’s colonial past, Taiwanese media reported on Monday.
      The Central News Agency said former...2017 May 29, “Pro-Beijing activist held over vandalized colonial era statues in Taipei”, in South China Morning Post, sourced from Kyodo, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2017...

Origin of Peitou

Borrowed from Mandarin 北斗 (Běidǒu) Wade–Giles romanization: Pei³-tou³.

Borrowed from Mandarin 北投 (Běitóu) Wade–Giles romanization: Pei³-tʻou².

Questions about Peitou

What is Peitou the alternative form of?
Peitou is the alternative form of Beidou.

Words near Peitou in the dictionary

  1. peisleyite
  2. Peister
  3. Peitaiho
  4. PEITC
  5. Peitho
  6. Peitou
  7. peitrel
  8. peitrels
  9. Peixoto
  10. Peixotos
  11. peize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Peitou (page history and authors); Beidou (page history and authors); Beitou (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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