Taoyuan

Syllables: Tao·yuan

Taoyuan proper noun: a city in northwestern Taiwan, formerly a county.

Proper noun (1)

Taoyuan

A city in northwestern Taiwan, formerly a county.
- One of the first 4-H members receives an official club banner during the inaugural meeting in Taoyuan.1953 June, Cooperative Extension Service, “4-H Clubs Thrive in Formosa”, in Extension Service Review, volume 24, number 6, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 112
- An international seminar entitled "Land Consolidation: Its Potential for New Urbanization at the Rural Fringe" began June 7 at Taoyuan in northern Taiwan.1979 June 10, “10 nations in talks on efficient use of land”, in Free China Weekly, volume XX, number 22, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1
A district of Taoyuan, Taiwan, formerly a county-administered city.

Taoyuan

A district in northeastern Kaohsiung, Taiwan, formerly a rural township.
A county of Changde, in northern Hunan, China.
- The important mining center Paoking is connected with Siangtan by a road through Hsiang Hsiang. It is also connected with Yuanchow by way of Wukang and with Changteh by way of Hsin Hua, An Hua, and Taoyuan.1915 September 24, Nelson T. Johnson, “Hunan Province”, in Supplement to Commerce Reports, number 52i, page 27
- By December 4 the advance upon Changsha had come to a standstill. After several days' indecisive fighting around Changteh and the town of Taoyuan, 15 miles to the west, which had been taken by the enemy after a heavy air raid supported by parachutists on November 21, the Japanese retreated...1944, Philip Graves, The Seventeenth Quarter, Hutchinson & Co., pages 157–158

Chen Shui-bian has been transferred from a detention center, in which he was held for over 700 days, to a prison in Taoyuan, right outside of Taipei.2010 December 3, Sarah Berning, “Taiwan's ex-president formally begins 19-year jail term”, in Anne Thomas, editor, Deutsche Welle, archived...
Her father, Lu Shi-sheng, ran a medium-size shop in the city of Taoyuan in northern Taiwan, and her mother Lu Huang-chin, had more children than she could financially support.2014, Jerome A. Cohen, Lu Hsiu-lien, Ashley Esarey, My Fight for a New Taiwan, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4:
After Yu Hsin-Hsien was elected to the City Council that year in Taoyuan, a city near Taipei, mysterious strangers began inquiring about buying his Facebook page, which had around 280,000 followers.2020 January 6, Raymond Zhong, “Awash in Disinformation Before Vote, Taiwan Points Finger at China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC...
At 1600 on 21 November 1943 Japanese paratroopers attacked Taoyuan, Hunan, as a phase of their Tungting Lake campaign.1945 July 1, Japanese Parachute Troops, Washington, D.C.: Military Intelligence Service, page 29:

From Mandarin 桃園 (Táoyuán) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻao²-yüan².

From Mandarin 桃源 (Táoyuán).

What does Taoyuan mean?: Taoyuan means a city in northwestern Taiwan, formerly a county.
What is Taoyuan in Thai?: Taoyuan in Thai is เถาหยวน (tǎo-yǔuan). See Taoyuan meaning in Thai.
How do you use Taoyuan in a sentence?: Chen Shui-bian has been transferred from a detention center, in which he was held for over 700 days, to a prison in Taoyuan, right outside of Taipei.
What part of speech is Taoyuan?: Taoyuan is a proper noun.

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