Taipeh
Taipeh proper noun: dated spelling of Taipei.
Proper noun
Taipeh
- Dated spelling of Taipei.
- OPIUM SMOKING LICENSES are issued in connection with the Government Laboratory at Taipeh, where the imported opium is refined and put, in three different qualities, into 1-lb. tins for distribution and sale to licence-holders.1898 March 26, “Extracts from Consular Reports”, in Pharmaceutical Journal, volume LX, number 1448, page 321
- From his lofty holiday resort on the Sun and Moon Lake in inland Formosa, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week scurried back to his forest-cloaked GHQ on Mount Tsao, overlooking Taipeh, the island's capital.1950 January 16, “Formosa: Climax of the China Tragedy”, in Newsweek, volume XXXV, number 3, page 30
Examples of Taipeh in a sentence
- Taipeh has thus become a political outcast.1984, Xing-hu Kuo, translated by Barrows Mussey, Free China Asian Economic Miracle, Germany: Seewald Publisher, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 7:
- The 452m/ l,484ft-high Petronas Towers stand in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and the »king of skyscrapers« is the 509m/ 1,670ft Taipeh 101 in Taipeh, the capital city of Taiwan.2012, Achim Bourmer, New York, Baedeker, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 231:
Origin of Taipeh
Postal Romanization of 臺北／台北 (Táiběi).
Questions about Taipeh
- What does Taipeh mean?
- Taipeh means dated spelling of Taipei.
- How do you use Taipeh in a sentence?
- Taipeh has thus become a political outcast.
- What part of speech is Taipeh?
- Taipeh is a proper noun.
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