Taihoku
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /taɪˈhəʊku/
ipa: /taɪˈhɒku/
enpr: tī-hōʹko͞o
Etymology: From Japanese 台北(たいほく) (taihoku).
Senses: examples: text: Taihoku Imperial University (original name of National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan)
text: Vernacular papers report that dispatches have been received by the Colonial Department from Formosa stating that 200 cases of black plague have broken out at Taihoku and Taiwan.
ref: 1897 June 9, “Oriental News”, in The Daily Colonist, volume LXXVII, number 153, Victoria, British Columbia, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 4:
text: Formerly there was no plant in Formosa for treating the oil ; but the Formosa government has now provided, in its Camphor establishment at Taihoku (Taipeh), an apparatus for this purpose.
ref: 1903, James W. Davidson, “The Formosan Camphor Industry”, in The Island of Formosa Past and Present, page 423:
text: Recent reports from Taiwan (Formosa), although fragmentary, begin to give a picture of economic conditions following the conclusion of the war. Now officially referred to as Taiwan Province, the island's former Japanese administration is being replaced by Chinese officials with little change, at least as yet, in the administrative pattern. Although there is no indication that ideographs will be changed, Chinese readings rather than Japanese will be followed for place names. Taihoku, for example, will be read in our alphabet as Taipei. This city presumably will continue to be the capital of Taiwan.
ref: 1946 February 16, “China”, in Foreign Commerce Weekly, volume XXII, number 7, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, United States Department of Commerce, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 26, column 2:
text: The conclusion reached by the Enquiry Committee was that Netaji met his death as a result of an air crash at Taihoku air-field in Formosa on August 18, 1945 and his ashes are now at Renkoji temple in Tokyo.
ref: 1966 May 14, “Letter dated 14.5.1966 from Shri Prasanta Sengupta”, in Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Declassified Files, page 17:
text: The raid, known as the Taihoku Air Raid, took place on May 31, 1945 and was part of the largest allied air raid on Japanese-occupied Taipei (then known as Taihoku) during WWII.
ref: 2018 May 24, Keoni Everington, “Photo of the Day: WWII allied bombing of Taiwan Presidential Office”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2019:
text: Lee Teng-hui (李登輝), who was born on Jan. 15, 1923, in the farming community of Sanshi Village, Taihoku Prefecture — now New Taipei City’s Sanzhi District (三芝) — during the Japanese colonial era, and rose to become mayor of Taipei and not only the Republic of China’s (ROC) first Taiwan-born president, but its first directly elected one as well.
ref: 2020 July 31, Sean Lin, Sherry Hsiao, “‘Mr Democracy’ a man for his time”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2020, Front Page, page 1:
glosses: Synonym of Taipei: the Japanese-derived name
synonyms: word: Taipei
extra: the Japanese-derived name
raw_tags: in reference to Japanese Taiwan
wikipedia: Army Map Service
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