{"senses": [{"examples": [{"text": "The Shen Pao of February 10th says that the Formosan savages of Ta k’o k’an, alarmed by the progress of General Wu, have proffered their submission and given up the notorious chief Niu-ming-loa-wal, who was executed at the capital on January 17th.", "ref": "[1890 March 26 [1890 March 25], “FROM THE ORIENT. Death of a Missionary Bishop–The Formosan Campaign.”, in Sacramento Daily Record-Union, volume LXXIX, number 28 (12,117), Sacramento, sourced from San Francisco, page 1, column 7:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[64, 75]]}, {"text": "The most important camphor center in North Taiwan was at Dakekan (later Daxi), which was reported to have over 20,000 camphor stills in 1870–Sanxia had about 150 (Wang 1976, p. 75).", "ref": "1982, Stevan Harrell, Ploughshare Village: Culture and Context in Taiwan [犁舌尾], University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 21, 215:", "english": "犁舌尾", "type": "quotation", "translation": "犁舌尾", "bold_text_offsets": [[57, 64]]}, {"text": "The main column, under the personal command of MajorGeneral Yamane, advanced, on the morning of the 22nd [July 1985] from Tohokam [Dakekan, now Daxi] to the vicinity of a village about five miles from Sankakeng.", "ref": "1990 June, Stevan Harrell, “From Xiedou to Yijun, the Decline of Ethnicity in Northern Taiwan, 1885–1895”, in Late Imperial China, volume 11, number 1, Johns Hopkins University Press, →DOI, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2018, pages 99–127:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[131, 138]]}, {"text": "論文旨在重建1895年清日臺灣統治政權轉換之際，大嵙崁（今桃園市大溪）地方的社會運作，及其與外部世界的互動變化過程，[…]", "ref": "2015 November 19, Wen-Liang Li [李文良], “From China to Japan: Dakekan Local Society in 1895 [一八九五年臺灣政權轉換之際的大嵙崁社會]”, in Historical Taiwan: Journal of the National Museum of Taiwan History, number 10, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2026, pages 005, 030:", "english": "一八九五年臺灣政權轉換之際的大嵙崁社會", "type": "quotation", "translation": "一八九五年臺灣政權轉換之際的大嵙崁社會", "bold_text_offsets": [[54, 61]]}, {"text": "Nakano Chūzō had wandered deep into the forests of Taiwan’s mountains when he unwittingly entered what was known as the barbarian settlement of Dakekan, where a group of indigenous Atayal people lived.", "ref": "2019, Kirsten L. Ziomek, “Introduction”, in Lost Histories: Recovering the Lives of Japan's Colonial Peoples (Harvard East Asian Monographs), number 418, Harvard University Asia Center, →DOI, →ISBN, →JSTOR, →LCCN, page 1:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[144, 151]]}, {"text": "Nomination：Daxi was renamed ”Dagusian” by Atayal. It was also renamed “Dagukan” by immigrants of Zhangzhou. Then, it was nominated “Dakekan” because of Mr. Li Teng-Fang who was a successful candidate in the imperial examination. Finally, “Daxi” was the official name in 1920.[…]\nGeographical environments：During Daoguang and Guangxu regimes of Qing Dynasty, the Dahan river and Tamsui river were converged together, therefore many sailboats and junks could sail from Tamsui to Dakekan.", "ref": "n.d., “Daxi District: The Garden City of Culture”, in Taoyuan City Government, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2025, About Taoyuan:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[132, 139], [477, 484]]}], "categories": ["English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English proper nouns", "English terms borrowed from Mandarin", "English terms derived from Mandarin", "English terms with historical senses", "English terms with quotations", "English uncountable nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries"], "links": [["Daxi", "Daxi#English"], ["Taoyuan", "Taoyuan"], ["Taiwan", "Taiwan"]], "raw_glosses": ["(historical) Synonym of Daxi (a district of Taoyuan, Taiwan)."], "glosses": ["Synonym of Daxi (a district of Taoyuan, Taiwan)."], "tags": ["historical"], "synonyms": [{"word": "Daxi", "extra": "a district of Taoyuan, Taiwan", "tags": ["synonym", "synonym-of"]}]}], "pos": "name", "head_templates": [{"name": "en-proper noun", "args": {}, "expansion": "Dakekan"}], "synonyms": [{"tags": ["historical"], "sense": "from Japanese", "word": "Taikokan"}], "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 大嵙崁.", "etymology_links": [["大嵙崁", "大嵙崁#Mandarin"]], "etymology_templates": [{"name": "bor", "args": {"1": "en", "2": "cmn", "3": "大嵙崁"}, "expansion": "Mandarin 大嵙崁"}], "sounds": [{"enpr": "dä′kŭ′kän′"}], "hyphenations": [{"parts": ["Da", "ke", "kan"]}], "word": "Dakekan", "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en"}