Beidou

See also: bēidōu and Běidǒu

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 北斗 (Běidǒu).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: bāʹdōʹ[1]

Proper noun

Beidou

  1. 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 08 July 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

Proper noun

Beidou

  1. Alternative form of BeiDou (“a Chinese satellite navigation system”).

References

  1. ^ 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

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