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T'ai-chou

T'ai-chou is the alternative form of Taizhou.

Meaning of Taizhou

Proper noun (1)

Taizhou

  1. A prefecture-level city of Zhejiang, in eastern China.
    • Another kind mentioned in the Pêntsao is 天竺桂 (T‘ien-chu-kuei). Porter Smith, on the supposition that the first two characters meant India, identified this with Cinnamomum tamala. But Li Shih-chen says that it is so named from a place called T‘ien-chu, in the prefecture of Taichou, Chekiang, where...[1911, “Vegetable Kingdom”, in Chinese Materia Medica, →OCLC, page 109

Proper noun (2)

Taizhou

  1. A prefecture-level city of Jiangsu, in eastern China.
    • In eastern Jiangsu province anxious investors gathered on Wednesday morning outside company offices in Taizhou city, while similar protests have been reported in Anhui and unpaid workers have demanded their wages in Ezhou city, Hubei.2021 September 15, “China's embattled Evergrande tries to pay bills with parking spots”, in France 24, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2021

Origin of T'ai-chou

From Mandarin 台州 Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai¹-chou¹.

From Mandarin 泰州 (Tàizhōu) Wade-Giles romanization: Tʻai⁴-chou¹.

Questions about T'ai-chou

What is T'ai-chou the alternative form of?
T'ai-chou is the alternative form of Taizhou.

Words near T'ai-chou in the dictionary

  1. T&S
  2. t'
  3. T'a-ch'eng
  4. T'a-k'o-la-ma-kan
  5. T'ai-an
  6. T'ai-chou
  7. T'ai-chung
  8. T'ai-erh-chuang
  9. T'ai-lu
  10. T'ai-lu-ko
  11. T'ai-nan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: T'ai-chou (page history and authors); Taizhou (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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