Taihoku

From Japanese 台北(たいほく) (taihoku).

• IPA^(key): /taɪˈhəʊku/, /taɪˈhɒku/

Taihoku

1. (historical, in reference to Japanese Taiwan) Synonym of Taipei: the Japanese-derived name

   Taihoku Imperial University (original name of National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan)

   • 1897 June 9, “Oriental News”, in The Daily Colonist‎, volume LXXVII, number 153, Victoria, British Columbia, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 4:

     Vernacular papers report that dispatches have been received by the Colonial Department from Formosa stating that 200 cases of black plague have broken out at Taihoku and Taiwan.

   • 1903, James W. Davidson, “The Formosan Camphor Industry”, in The Island of Formosa Past and Present‎, page 423:

     Formerly there was no plant in Formosa for treating the oil ; but the Formosa government has now provided, in its Camphor establishment at Taihoku (Taipeh), an apparatus for this purpose.

   • 1966 May 14, “Letter dated 14.5.1966 from Shri Prasanta Sengupta”, in Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Declassified Files‎, page 17:

     The conclusion reached by the Enquiry Committee was that Netaji met his death as a result of an air crash at Taihoku air-field in Formosa on August 18, 1945 and his ashes are now at Renkoji temple in Tokyo.

   • 2018 May 24, Keoni Everington, “Photo of the Day: WWII allied bombing of Taiwan Presidential Office”, in Taiwan News‎, archived from the original on 1 September 2019:

     The raid, known as the Taihoku Air Raid, took place on May 31, 1945 and was part of the largest allied air raid on Japanese-occupied Taipei (then known as Taihoku) during WWII.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Taihoku.

• Dairen, Takao, Taito, Shiodome, Saei

• Category:Formosa (Taiwan) 1:50,000 AMS Series L792 (Taiwan Maps using Japanese-derived Terminology), Wikimedia Commons
• Taihoku at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “Taihoku” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.