Beidou
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Mandarin 北斗 (Běidǒu).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Beidou
- An urban township in Changhua County, Taiwan.
- 2011 April 7, Noah Buchan, “Walking with Matsu”, in Taipei Times[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 April 2011, Home / Features, page 13[3]:
- At 2am on April 22 last year, I departed Chengan Temple (奠安宮) in Changhua County’s Beidou Township (北斗) surrounded by thousands of Matsu devotees.
- 2023 April 28, Keoni Everington, “4th Filipino worker dies in central Taiwan food factory fire”, in Taiwan News[4], archived from the original on July 08, 2024, Society[5]:
- At 6:45 a.m. on Tuesday (April 25), a fire broke out at the Lian Hwa Foods Corp. factory on Sihai Road, Section 1 in Changhua County's Beidou Township.
Translations
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Peitow or Pei-tou”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1446, column 1
Further reading
[edit]- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Peitou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2393, column 1