See Taoyuan on Wiktionary
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "Taowian",
"sense": "a city in Taiwan",
"word": "타오위안"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "Taojuánʹ",
"sense": "a city in Taiwan",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Таоюа́нь"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "tǎo-yǔuan",
"sense": "a city in Taiwan",
"word": "เถาหยวน"
},
{
"alt": "桃園",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "a city in Taiwan",
"word": "Đào Viên"
}
],
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"Taoyuan"
],
"word": "Taoyuan"
}
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"English uncountable nouns",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
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"etymology_text": "From Mandarin 桃源 (Táoyuán).",
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"en:Neighborhoods in Taiwan",
"en:Places in Kaohsiung",
"en:Places in Taiwan"
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"A district in northeastern Kaohsiung, Taiwan, formerly a rural township."
],
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"en:Places in China",
"en:Places in Hunan"
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"ref": "1915 September 24, Nelson T. Johnson, “Hunan Province”, in Supplement to Commerce Reports, number 52i, page 27:",
"text": "The important mining center Paoking is connected with Siangtan by a road through Hsiang Hsiang. It is also connected with Yuanchow by way of Wukang and with Changteh by way of Hsin Hua, An Hua, and Taoyuan.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1944, Philip Graves, The Seventeenth Quarter, Hutchinson & Co., pages 157–158:",
"text": "By December 4 the advance upon Changsha had come to a standstill. After several days' indecisive fighting around Changteh and the town of Taoyuan, 15 miles to the west, which had been taken by the enemy after a heavy air raid supported by parachutists on November 21, the Japanese retreated northwards.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1945 July 1, Japanese Parachute Troops, Washington, D.C.: Military Intelligence Service, page 29:",
"text": "At 1600 on 21 November 1943 Japanese paratroopers attacked Taoyuan, Hunan, as a phase of their Tungting Lake campaign.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "[1992, “SUNG CHIAO-JEN”, in Edwin Pak-wah Leung, editor, Historical Dictionary of Revolutionary China, 1839-1976, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 396:",
"text": "Sung Chiao-jen was born into a lower gentry household in T’ao-yüan County, Hunan. At the local Chang-chiang Academy, he is reported to have shown interest in statecraft, textual criticism, and neo-Confucian self-cultivation.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2023 January 17, Jennifer Jett, Livia Liu, “China's first Lunar New Year without Covid restrictions fuels fears of a rural crisis”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 2023-01-17, World:",
"text": "The frequent ceremonies, which are meant to release the souls of the dead from purgatory, come as China’s worst outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic spreads further into its rural, more vulnerable areas.\n“It has never been this many all at once,” said a 24-year-old visiting her home village in Taoyuan County, in the southern province of Hunan, for the Lunar New Year, China’s biggest holiday.",
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],
"glosses": [
"A county of Changde, in northern Hunan, China."
],
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"Changde",
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}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Taoyüan"
},
{
"word": "T'ao-yuan"
},
{
"alt": "Wade–Giles",
"word": "T'ao-yüan"
}
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"roman": "Táoyuán",
"sense": "locations",
"word": "桃源"
}
],
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"Taoyuan"
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}
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