Tainan City

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Tainan City

(law) Synonym of Tainan
- 1972, Burton Pasternak, Kinship & Community in Two Chinese Villages‎, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 72-78870, OCLC 1087947197, 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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