Tainan City

English

Etymology

Calque from Chinese 臺南市 (literally “Tainan city”), the formal name of Tainan

Proper noun

Tainan City

  1. (law) Synonym of Tainan.
    • 1972, Burton Pasternak, Kinship & Community in Two Chinese Villages‎[1], Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10:
      Chungshe is one of eleven villages in Liuchia township, Tainan county (see Maps 2 and 3). It lies about 30 kilometers northeast of Tainan city.
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