# Taoyuan
## English
### Alternative forms

* Taoyüan, T'ao-yuan, T'ao-yüan (Wade–Giles)

### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: touʹyo͞o-änʹ

#### Proper noun

Taoyuan
* A city in northwestern Taiwan, formerly a county.
** 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:One of the first 4-H members receives an official club banner during the inaugural meeting in Taoyuan.
** 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:An international seminar entitled "Land Consolidation: Its Potential for New Urbanization at the Rural Fringe" began June 7 at Taoyuan in northern Taiwan.
** 2010 December 3, Sarah Berning, “Taiwan's ex-president formally begins 19-year jail term”, in Anne Thomas, editor, Deutsche Welle‎, archived from the original on 2023-07-16‎: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.
** 2014, Jerome A. Cohen, Lu Hsiu-lien, Ashley Esarey, My Fight for a New Taiwan‎, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4:Unlike many influential politicians in Taiwan and elsewhere, Lu Hsiu-lien does not come from an elite family. 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.
** 2018 October 9, “Taiwan conducts massive military drills ahead of National Day”, in EFE‎, archived from the original on 18 August 2022:Taiwan carried out an unprecedented military drill Tuesday, a day ahead of its National Day celebrations, in Taoyuan in northern parts of the country. The drill was attended by Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen, and President of Paraguay Mario Abdo Benitez, who is on a state visit to Taiwan until Thursday.
** 2020 January 6, Raymond Zhong, “Awash in Disinformation Before Vote, Taiwan Points Finger at China”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-01-06, Technology‎: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. Mr. Yu, 30, immediately suspected China.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Taoyuan.
* A district of Taoyuan, in northwestern Taiwan.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Mandarin 桃源 (Táoyuán).

#### Proper noun

Taoyuan
* A district in northeastern Kaohsiung, Taiwan, formerly a rural township.
* A county of Changde, in northern Hunan, China.
** 1915 September 24, Nelson T. Johnson, “Hunan Province”, in Supplement to Commerce Reports‎, number 52i, page 27: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.
** 1944, Philip Graves, The Seventeenth Quarter‎, Hutchinson & Co., pages 157–158: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 northwards.
** 1945 July 1, Japanese Parachute Troops‎, Washington, D.C.: Military Intelligence Service, page 29:At 1600 on 21 November 1943 Japanese paratroopers attacked Taoyuan, Hunan, as a phase of their Tungting Lake campaign.
** [1992, “SUNG CHIAO-JEN”, in Edwin Pak-wah Leung, editor, Historical Dictionary of Revolutionary China, 1839-1976‎, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 396:Sung Chiao-jen was born into a lower gentry household in T’ao-yüan County, Hunan. At the local Chang-chiang Academy, he is reported to have shown interest in statecraft, textual criticism, and neo-Confucian self-cultivation.]
** 2023 January 17, Jennifer Jett, Livia Liu, “China's first Lunar New Year without Covid restrictions fuels fears of a rural crisis”, in NBC News‎, archived from the original on 17 January 2023, World‎:The frequent ceremonies, which are meant to release the souls of the dead from purgatory, come as China’s worst outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic spreads further into its rural, more vulnerable areas. “It has never been this many all at once,” said a 24-year-old visiting her home village in Taoyuan County, in the southern province of Hunan, for the Lunar New Year, China’s biggest holiday.

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### Further reading

* Taoyuan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.