Word: Taiping Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin Chinese 太平 (Tàipíng, literally “Great Peace, Great Pacified Region”). Pronunciation: /taɪˈpɪŋ/ 1. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, a rebel state in southern, eastern, and central China during the mid-19th century. Labels: historical Example: Chiang-su was the main centre of the great Tʻai Pʻing rebellion, Nanking being the rebel capital from 1853 to 1864. Example: From the age of thirteen, Huang Pin-hung was able to study paintings in private collections that were being dispersed in the area around his ancestral home in She-hsien, An-hui Province, in the wake of the T’ai-p’ing Rebellion; he was particularly impressed by the works of Tung Ch’i-ch’ang (1555-1636) and Cha Shih-piao (1615-98). 2. Various districts, towns, townships, mountains, and islands in China, Taiwan, and Malaysia. Example: Taiwan’s coastguard has said it plans to hold rescue drills in waters around Taipei’s sole territorial holding in the disputed South China Sea at the end of this month, and that the drills could involve its navy. The exercises to be held around Itu Aba, known by Taiwan as Taiping, would include drills in rescuing shipwrecked personnel, the coastguard said. More details would be released later, it said in a statement on its website late on Sunday. “Currently the navy regularly patrols near Taiping Island. We don’t rule out the navy playing a supporting role in future humanitarian rescue drills being held near Taiping,” the Coast Guard Administration said in the statement. Example: Taiping, also known as Itu Aba, is the biggest natural feature in the Spratly islands. It is currently occupied by Taiwan but is also claimed by China, the Philippines and Vietnam. 3. Various districts, towns, townships, mountains, and islands in China, Taiwan, and Malaysia. Example: Parit is a small town of roughly 2,000 people in the state of Perak, deep in the rural heartland of Malaysia, with no distinguishing feature other than its attractive location on the banks of a muddy river, which served as the backdrop to a few scenes in the 1999 movie “Anna and the King.” Once a convenient and bustling stopping-off point on the winding road from Ipoh, the state capital, to Taiping in the north, Parit suffered from the construction of the North-South Expressway in the 1990s, which diverted passing trade away from the town. 4. Various districts, towns, townships, mountains, and islands in China, Taiwan, and Malaysia. Example: In Taiwan province, a gathering attended by 10,000 people was held at Pingling military camp in Taiping village, Taichung county. Example: In tracing the history of the cases, it found that a 60-year-old female patient in Taichung's Taiping District Xinguang Borough began experiencing symptoms including fever in mid-August. 5. Various districts, towns, townships, mountains, and islands in China, Taiwan, and Malaysia. 6. Taiping Prefecture, a former prefecture of China located west of Nanjing during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Labels: historical 7. Victoria Peak in Hong Kong. Labels: uncommon Example: When the pandemic fades, let’s go hiking on Taiping Mountain and enjoy the picturesque scenery of the “Pearl of the Orient” together.