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T'ai-tung

T'ai-tung is the alternative spelling of Taitung.

Meaning of Taitung

Proper noun

Taitung

  1. A county in eastern Taiwan.
    • A thorough reorganization and redivisioning of the island was now necessitated. In former days, Formosa comprised one complete prefecture, four districts and three sub-prefectures. Now the island became a province with four prefectures (Taipeh, Taiwan, Tainan, and Taitung), eleven districts, and...1903, James W. Davidson, The Island of Formosa Past and Present, page 244
  2. A city in and the administrative seat of Taitung County, in eastern Taiwan.
    • Early in the morning the group left by train for Taitung, the port of exit from where they would take a boat over the choppy ocean.1958 August 12, Mrs. Peter J. Pankratz, “Visit to Orchid Island”, in The Mennonite, volume 73, number 31, page 485
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Origin of T'ai-tung

From Mandarin 臺東 /台東 (Táidōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai²-tung¹.

Questions about T'ai-tung

What is T'ai-tung the alternative spelling of?
T'ai-tung is the alternative spelling of Taitung.

Words near T'ai-tung in the dictionary

  1. T'ai-lu
  2. T'ai-lu-ko
  3. T'ai-nan
  4. T'ai-p'ing
  5. T'ai-shan
  6. T'ai-tung
  7. T'ai-wan
  8. T'ai-yeh Lake
  9. T'ai-yeh Pond
  10. T'ai-yuan
  11. T'ai-yüan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: T'ai-tung (page history and authors); Taitung (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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