Taichow

English

Etymology

The postal romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 台州 (Tāizhōu) and 泰州 (Tàizhōu).

Proper noun

Taichow

  1. Alternative form of Taizhou
    • December 2010, John Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, World Wide Publications, →ISBN, page 120:
      She felt, too, that he would ignore a call to evacuate his beloved hospital unless he received a message from someone he trusted: she knew his opinion of timid consuls who tried to rescue their nationals from imaginary perils. Looking at the map, she decided that the person to warn him was Kerr Taylor, who had been temporarily at Taichow to the south and was listed among those evacuated by American gunboat to Shanghai.
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