T'ai-an

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See also: taian and Tai'an

English

Map including T'AI-AN (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 泰安 (Tài'ān), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai⁴-an¹.

Proper noun

T'ai-an

  1. Alternative form of Tai'an.
    • 1962, Tsuen-hsuin Tsien, Written on Bamboo and Silk: the Beginnings of Chinese Books and Inscriptions, University of Chicago Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 80:
      A group of inscriptions on three precipices, including an incantation and partial text of the Paramita sutra and the Maha-prajna-paramita sutra, was engraved in A.D. 570 on the Tsu-lai Mountain in T’ai-an.
    • 1978, David D. Buck, Urban Change in China, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162:
      On the morning of 6 May Chiang and his armies withdrew southward toward T'ai-an, where a new Kuomintang regime in Shantung was established.
    • 1987, Jennifer Westwood, editor, Mysterious Places, Marshall Editions Ltd, published 1998, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 18:
      When climbing the 7,000 steps of T'ai Shan, from the town of T'ai-an to the Temple of the Jade Emperor at its peak, the visitor encounters temples, groves of cypress and pine, waterfalls and cascades.

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