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Beidou
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bēidōu Běidǒu
English
Beidou Township, Changhua
Alternative forms
en Peitou Wade-Giles
Etymology
Borrowed from en cmn 北斗.
Pronunciation
bāʹdōʹen 1952 Peitow or Pei-tou Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1446 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1446/ 1
en Bei dou
Proper noun
en urban township county/Changhua County c/Taiwan.
en April 07, 2011 Noah Buchan Walking with Matsu w:Taipei Times https://web.archive.org/web/20110410123030/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2011/04/07/2003500101 10 April 2011 https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2011/04/07/2003500101 1563-9525 464696902 Home / Features 13 https://archive.ph/IqMl At 2am on April 22 last year, I departed Chengan Temple (zh 奠安宮) in Changhua County’s Beidou Township (zh 北斗) surrounded by thousands of Matsu devotees.
en April 28, 2023 Keoni Everington 4th Filipino worker dies in central Taiwan food factory fire w:Taiwan News https://web.archive.org/web/20240708005237/https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/4877321 https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/4877321 July 08, 2024 Society https://archive.ph/2lLB4 At 6:45 a.m. on Tuesday (April 25), a fire broke out at the Lian Hwa Foods Corp. factory on Sihai Road, Section 1 in Changhua County's Beidou Township.
Translations
urban township
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 北斗 Běidǒu
Polish: pl Beidou n
Proper noun
en BeiDou a Chinese satellite navigation system.
References
Further reading
en 1998 Peitou Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2393 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2393/ 1
en 2-syllable words