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Tan-shui

Tan-shui proper noun: synonym of Tamsui.

Proper noun

Tan-shui

  1. Synonym of Tamsui.
    • Taipei lies on the east bank of the Tan-shui river between the mouths of two of its tributaries, the Hsin-tien and the Chi-lung. These rivers drain a fertile and humid basin surrounded by mountains on all sides but the northwest, where the Tan-shui flows into the Taiwan Straits facing the mainland....1974, Stephan Feuchtwang, “City Temples in Taipei Under Three Regimes”, in Mark Elvin, G. William Skinner, editors, The Chinese City Between Two Worlds, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press...
    • They felt, with an eye on Japan, that it could also serve as a point of departure for Spanish missionaries. Since the isolated fort did not give sufficient protection, in 1628 they sent a unit to occupy the coast of the adjacent tip of Taiwan, at Tan-shui.2003, Henry Kamen, Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492-1763, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 395
    Synonyms:
    Tamsui

Examples of Tan-shui in a sentence

  • Taipei lies on the east bank of the Tan-shui river between the mouths of two of its tributaries, the Hsin-tien and the Chi-lung.1974, Stephan Feuchtwang, “City Temples in Taipei Under Three Regimes”, in Mark Elvin, G. William Skinner, editors, The Chinese City...
  • Harry had seen the result of zjuk carried out by the Tapei Triad on a poor jerk they found in a back street of Tan-shui.2012 [2011], Jo Nesbø, translated by Don Bartlett, Gjenferd [Phantom] (Fiction), New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 99:

Synonyms of Tan-shui

Origin of Tan-shui

From Mandarin 淡水 (Dànshuǐ) Wade–Giles romanization: Tan⁴-shui³.

Questions about Tan-shui

What does Tan-shui mean?
Tan-shui means synonym of Tamsui.
How do you use Tan-shui in a sentence?
Taipei lies on the east bank of the Tan-shui river between the mouths of two of its tributaries, the Hsin-tien and the Chi-lung.
What part of speech is Tan-shui?
Tan-shui is a proper noun.

Words near Tan-shui in the dictionary

  1. Tan-ag Ilaya
  2. Tan-chiang-k'ou
  3. Tan-chou
  4. Tan-feng
  5. Tan-kea
  6. Tan-shui
  7. Tan-tung
  8. Tan-y-Bwlch
  9. tana
  10. Tanabag
  11. Tanabata

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