Taipeh

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English

Etymology

From the Postal Romanization of Nanjing court dialect Mandarin 臺北／台北 (Táiběi).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Taipeh

  1. Dated spelling of Taipei.
    • 1898 March 26, “Extracts from Consular Reports”, in Pharmaceutical Journal‎, volume LX, number 1448, page 321:
      OPIUM SMOKING LICENSES are issued in connection with the Government Laboratory at Taipeh, where the imported opium is refined and put, in three different qualities, into 1-lb. tins for distribution and sale to licence-holders.
    • 1950 January 16, “Formosa: Climax of the China Tragedy”, in Newsweek‎, volume XXXV, number 3, page 30:
      From his lofty holiday resort on the Sun and Moon Lake in inland Formosa, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week scurried back to his forest-cloaked GHQ on Mount Tsao, overlooking Taipeh, the island's capital.
    • 1971, Andrew Boyd, Fifteen Men on a Powder Keg: a History of the U.N. Security Council‎, New York: Stein and Day, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 127:
      In August 1950 the Council rejected its Russian president’s proposal that a Peking representative should be invited under Article 32. This would have implied recognition of communist China as a state; and the Council, by a slim majority, was committed to the view that China was still legally represented by the government that had fled to Taipeh in 1949.
    • 1984, Xing-hu Kuo, translated by Barrows Mussey, Free China Asian Economic Miracle‎, Germany: Seewald Publisher, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 7:
      The Republic of China had to withdraw from the UN as early as 1971; most of the world's countries maintain diplomatic relations with Peking only. Taipeh has thus become a political outcast.
    • 2012, Achim Bourmer, New York‎, Baedeker, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 231:
      The 452m/ l,484ft-high Petronas Towers stand in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and the »king of skyscrapers« is the 509m/ 1,670ft Taipeh 101 in Taipeh, the capital city of Taiwan.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Taipeh.

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French

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Proper noun

Taipeh m

  1. Taipei

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Proper noun

Taipeh n (proper noun, strong, genitive Taipehs)

  1. Taipei
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