Taoyuan

• (from Wade–Giles) Taoyüan, T'ao-yuan, T'ao-yüan

From Mandarin 桃園 (Táoyuán) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻao²-yüan².

• enPR: touʹyo͞o-änʹ

Taoyuan

1. A city in northwestern Taiwan, formerly a county.
   • 1953 June, Cooperative Extension Service, “4-H Clubs Thrive in Formosa”, in Extension Service Review‎, volume 24, number 6, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 112:

     One of the first 4-H members receives an official club banner during the inaugural meeting in Taoyuan.

   • 1979 June 10, “10 nations in talks on efficient use of land”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XX, number 22, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

     An international seminar entitled "Land Consolidation: Its Potential for New Urbanization at the Rural Fringe" began June 7 at Taoyuan in northern Taiwan.

   • 2014, Jerome A. Cohen, Lu Hsiu-lien, Ashley Esarey, My Fight for a New Taiwan‎, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4:

     Unlike many influential politicians in Taiwan and elsewhere, Lu Hsiu-lien does not come from an elite family. Her father, Lu Shi-sheng, ran a medium-size shop in the city of Taoyuan in northern Taiwan, and her mother Lu Huang-chin, had more children than she could financially support.

   • 2018 October 9, “Taiwan conducts massive military drills ahead of National Day”, in EFE‎, archived from the original on 18 August 2022:

     Taiwan carried out an unprecedented military drill Tuesday, a day ahead of its National Day celebrations, in Taoyuan in northern parts of the country.
     The drill was attended by Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen, and President of Paraguay Mario Abdo Benitez, who is on a state visit to Taiwan until Thursday.

   • 2020 January 6, Zhong, Raymond, “Awash in Disinformation Before Vote, Taiwan Points Finger at China”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-01-06, Technology‎:

     After Yu Hsin-Hsien was elected to the City Council that year in Taoyuan, a city near Taipei, mysterious strangers began inquiring about buying his Facebook page, which had around 280,000 followers. Mr. Yu, 30, immediately suspected China.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Taoyuan.
2. A district of Taoyuan, in northwestern Taiwan.

From Mandarin 桃源 (Táoyuán).

Taoyuan

1. A district in northeastern Kaohsiung, Taiwan, formerly a rural township.
2. A county of Changde, in northern Hunan, China.
   • 1915 September 24, Nelson T. Johnson, “Hunan Province”, in Supplement to Commerce Reports‎, number 52i, page 27:

     The important mining center Paoking is connected with Siangtan by a road through Hsiang Hsiang. It is also connected with Yuanchow by way of Wukang and with Changteh by way of Hsin Hua, An Hua, and Taoyuan.

   • 1944, Philip Graves, The Seventeenth Quarter‎, Hutchinson & Co., pages 157-158:

     By December 4 the advance upon Changsha had come to a standstill. After several days' indecisive fighting around Changteh and the town of Taoyuan, 15 miles to the west, which had been taken by the enemy after a heavy air raid supported by parachutists on November 21, the Japanese retreated northwards.

   • 1945 July 1, Japanese Parachute Troops‎, Washington, D.C.: Military Intelligence Service, page 29:

     At 1600 on 21 November 1943 Japanese paratroopers attacked Taoyuan, Hunan, as a phase of their Tungting Lake campaign.