"Pei-kan" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 北竿 (Běigān), Wade–Giles romanization: Pei³-kan¹.",
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          "ref": "[1954, “China Sea Pilot”, in Great Britain Hydrographic Department, volume III, page 165:",
          "text": "Ma-tsu hai-hsai (strait), situated between Ma-tsu shan and Pei-kan-tang tao, north-eastward, has a navigable width of nearly one mile between the reefs on either side.",
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          "ref": "[1954 September 30, “Reds Repulsed”, in The Lincoln Star, Home edition, volume 52, Lincoln, Nebraska, sourced from TAIPEH (INS), →OCLC, page 2, column 6:",
          "text": "The defense ministry in Taipeh, Nationalist capital of Formosa Island, said a fleet of 40 to 50 junks tried to put the landing force ashore on Pei Kan Tang in the Matsu Islands off the estuary of the Min River.",
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          "ref": "1970, Ken Fitzgerald, “Asia”, in The Space Age Photographic Atlas, Crown Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 196:",
          "text": "South of Hang-chou Wan (Bay) below Shanghai, the China coastline changes from a smooth, flat topography to one of irregular, rocky promontories and numerous islands. Foochow, the Fugiu of Marco Polo, dates from the seventh century. Offshore the Ma-tsu Lieh-tao (Matsu and Pei-kan, or Changshu^([sic – meaning Changhsu]) Islands) are heavily fortified Nationalist strongholds.",
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          "ref": "1998, “Matsu”, in Saul B. Cohen, editor, The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1917, column 3:",
          "text": "The major isls. include Pei-kan and Nan-kan (Mazu). Fishing is the main economic activity.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Humphrey Hawksley, Dragon Fire, Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 315:",
          "text": "'We have successfully taken Pei-kan,' said Leung. 'Heavy shelling has been going for twenty minutes from Kinmen.",
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        "Alternative form of Beigan (island)"
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  "word": "Pei-kan"
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          "ref": "[1954, “China Sea Pilot”, in Great Britain Hydrographic Department, volume III, page 165:",
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          "ref": "[1954 September 30, “Reds Repulsed”, in The Lincoln Star, Home edition, volume 52, Lincoln, Nebraska, sourced from TAIPEH (INS), →OCLC, page 2, column 6:",
          "text": "The defense ministry in Taipeh, Nationalist capital of Formosa Island, said a fleet of 40 to 50 junks tried to put the landing force ashore on Pei Kan Tang in the Matsu Islands off the estuary of the Min River.",
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          "ref": "1970, Ken Fitzgerald, “Asia”, in The Space Age Photographic Atlas, Crown Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 196:",
          "text": "South of Hang-chou Wan (Bay) below Shanghai, the China coastline changes from a smooth, flat topography to one of irregular, rocky promontories and numerous islands. Foochow, the Fugiu of Marco Polo, dates from the seventh century. Offshore the Ma-tsu Lieh-tao (Matsu and Pei-kan, or Changshu^([sic – meaning Changhsu]) Islands) are heavily fortified Nationalist strongholds.",
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          "text": "The major isls. include Pei-kan and Nan-kan (Mazu). Fishing is the main economic activity.",
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          "ref": "2000, Humphrey Hawksley, Dragon Fire, Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 315:",
          "text": "'We have successfully taken Pei-kan,' said Leung. 'Heavy shelling has been going for twenty minutes from Kinmen.",
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