Taidong

Taidong is the alternative form of Taitung.

Taidong is the alternative form of Taedong.

Meaning of Taitung

Taitung

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
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
Synonyms:

TTT

Taedong

The river that flows through Pyongyang in North Korea.
- Mr. Oh, who now lives in Seoul, knows that his parents have died — they would have been over 100 by now — but he found out only this month that his two sisters were alive in North Korea. And his kid brother, the little rascal he taught to swim in the Taedong River in Pyongyang, is also alive.2010 October 29, Mark McDonald, “After 6 Decades of Separation in Korea, a Meeting”, in The New York Times, sourced from SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2023...
Synonyms:

Daido, Datong, Tatung, Taedonggang

From Mandarin 臺東 /台東 (Táidōng).

What is Taidong the alternative form of?: Taidong is the alternative form of Taitung.

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