Beidou
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Mandarin 北斗 (Běidǒu).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Beidou
- 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.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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