Peinan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 卑南 (Bēinán) Wade–Giles romanization: Pei¹-nan².
Senses: examples: text: In 1945, Kanaseki and Kokubu excavated a site near Peinan, close to the city of Taitung (Kanaseki and Kokubu 1957).
ref: 1969, Richard J. Pearson, “The Prehistoric Sequence in Eastern Taiwan”, in Archaeology of the Ryukyu Islands: A Regional Chronology from 3000 B.C. to the Historic Period, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 103:
text: The final stretch of the railway runs from Fangliao in Pingtung County through the central mountain range to Peinan in Taitung County and entails the constructon^([sic – meaning construction]) of 34 tunnels covering 37.45 kilometers, 40 major bridges covering 5.05 kilometers, and 118 smaller bridges over 1,932 meters.
ref: 1983 December 4, “Southern Link RR Completion Set For 1988”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XXIV, number 48, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 1:
english: Free China Weekly
translation: Free China Weekly
text: The stone slab coffins excavated from the site at Peinan, Taitung County, total over 1,000 in all.
ref: 1998, Li-na Chen, A Visit Into Taiwan's History & Culture, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 8:
text: Children from Peinan Township in southeastern Taiwan’s Taitung County pose in front of a 9-meter-tall teddy bear-shaped balloon in this undated photo. The bear will be featured in various Christmas celebrations. (Courtesy of Peinan Township Office)
ref: 2016 December 15, “Giant Teddy”, in Taiwan Today, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2020:
text: Although the February 28 incident did not cause great turmoil in Taitung, the situation was tense due to very few troops and county officials. The crowd surrounded Hsieh Chen’s official residence on March 3. Under the protection of the aborigines, Hsieh Chen left Peinan Township and then fled to Chulu mountain.
ref: 2018, Chun-ying (吳俊瑩) Wu, “二二八事件在臺東 [The February 28 Incident in Taitung]”, in 台灣文獻, volume 69, number 4, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2022, page 131:
english: The February 28 Incident in Taitung
translation: The February 28 Incident in Taitung
text: Puyuma [pyu] is an Austronesian language spoken in southeastern Taiwan, specifically in Taitung City (臺東市) and Peinan Township (卑南鄉) in Taitung County (臺東縣).
ref: 2018, Cataloguing the World's Endangered Languages, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cataloguing_the_World_s_Endangered_Langu/CVRSDwAAQBAJ?gbpv=1&pg=PT33:
text: This year, we have completed the construction of "aynomi love Nan'ao" located in Nan'ao township of Ilan County, and two smart tribes of Peinan and Peinan in Peinan township of Taidong county.
ref: 2020 November, Weijun Zhang, “FET works with Council of Indigenous Peoples to build smart tribes”, in Far East Magazine, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2022:
text: As people across Taiwan prepared to ring in the new year on Friday (Dec. 31), Pinuyumayan (Peinan, 卑南) tribe members from Puyuma village in Taitung’s Peinan Township gathered to hold their annual coming-of-age ceremony.
ref: 2021 January 4, Kelvin Chen, “Taiwan's Pinuyumayan tribe holds coming-of-age ceremony at 2020's end”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2021:
glosses: Alternative form of Beinan.