# Nantou
## English
### Alternative forms

* Nan-t'ou (also from Wade–Giles)

### Pronunciation

* enPR: nänʹtōʹ

### Etymology 1

From Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 南投 (Nántóu) Wade–Giles romanization: Nan²-tʻou².

#### Proper noun

Nantou
* A county in central Taiwan.
** 1958, “Malaria Control and Eradication in Taiwan Progress Report, May 1952 to June 1957”, in Bulletin of the World Health Organization‎, volume 19, number 4, page 601:The island-wide spleen survey carried out in 1953 (Demos, Ch'enk & Hsieh, 1954; Wu, 1956) showed the following pattern of malaria endemicity in Taiwan (see Fig. 2): (i) hypoendemic regions (spleen rate below 10%) at altitudes of over 1000 metres (with the exception of a few villages at altitudes of 1000-1300 metres in Nantou Hsien of Central Taiwan), and the municipal centres, southwestern coastal townships, and Penghu; […]
** 1965, Albert Ravenholt, “Awakening the Land”, in The World Book Yearbook‎, page 135:He confidently tends his crops and rears his family in Nantou County on Formosa's gardenlike west-central plain.
** 1983 June 12, “People working together soften impact of floods”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XXIV, number 23, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:Hardest hit by the flooding and landslides was Nantou County, where 14 persons were reported killed, two injured and several others missing.
** 2009 August 27, “Dalai Lama invite incurs Chinese wrath”, in France 24‎, archived from the original on 22 July 2010‎:Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou on Thursday approved a visit next week by the Dalai Lama to the typhoon-hit island in a move analysts say could damage Taipei's efforts to improve ties with China. "We have decided to agree to the Dalai Lama's visit to pray for the souls of the deceased and seek blessings for the survivors of the typhoon," Ma told reporters in central Nantou county.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Nantou.
* A city in and the administrative seat of Nantou County, Taiwan.
** 2021 February 2, Amy Qin, “Covid-19 Live Updates: Virus Variants Continue to Evolve, Sometimes in Dangerous Ways”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on February 2, 2021‎:Mr. Chen had returned from Hong Kong in late October and was undergoing the required two-week quarantine at a friend’s home in the central city of Nantou when a group of debt collectors showed up one night, the Justice Ministry in Taiwan said last week.

##### Translations
#### Further reading

* Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Nantou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2117, column 3: “Sometimes spelled Nantow.”

### Etymology 2

From Mandarin 南頭／南头 (Nántóu).

#### Proper noun

Nantou
* A town in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
** 2021 January 17, Paul French, “Myth busting: Shenzhen’s sleazy past as short-lived gangster and gambling hub Shum Chun”, in South China Morning Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on January 17, 2021, Post Magazine‎:Shum Chun’s population swelled throughout the 50s as it became the centre for the Bao’an County government, owing to its proximity to the KCR and an economy that was larger than its rival, Nantou. Shum Chun also became a temporary home for refugees attempting to escape to Hong Kong from Mao’s Communist China. […] Then, in 1978, a central inspection team from the State Council in Beijing arrived, looked around and decided that Bao’an County might make a good foreign trade port and Shum Chun, now commonly called Shenzhen, a good “Trade Cooperation Zone”. The words “sleepy”, “backwater” and “small” may apply to the fishing village of Yumin, in Shenzhen’s Luohu district, but most definitely not to Shum Chun nor, it should be said, to the once walled village of Nantou, now also incorporated into the metropolis.
* A town in Zhongshan, Guangdong, China.

##### Translations
#### Further reading

* Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Nantou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2117, column 3

### Further reading

* Nantou, Nan-t'ou, Nan-tou at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.