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Beinan
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bèinàn Bēinán
English
Beinan Township, Taitung
Alternative forms
en Peinan Pei-nan Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin -en https://archive.org/details/newillustratedhi0000zhou/ Transliteration Tables A New Illustrated History of Taiwan Wan-yao Chou (:zh:周婉窈 周婉窈) SMC Publishing Carole Plackitt, Tim Casey 2015 434 https://archive.org/details/newillustratedhi0000zhou/page/434/ 978-957-638-784-5 934736311 Taipei Transliterations used in the text / Hanyu pinyin / Chinese characters or Japanese kanjiPeinan / Beinan / zh 卑南 romanization of the en cmn 卑南.
Pronunciation
bāʹnǎnʹ
Proper noun
en rural township county/Taitung County c/Taiwan.
en 1982 China Report: Political, Sociological and Military Affairs https://books.google.com/books?id=6ZcbAQAAMAAJ w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service 355-360 0891-351X 5397485 215 6) Bureaus for appeasing tenants engaged in reclamation and cultivation of the wastelands were established in Beinan, Qilai and Puli. ("Private Law of Taiwan, Property Rights," Vol 1 pp 9-12)
en Nov 11, 2015 Ministry to aid UNESCO bid for caves https://web.archive.org/web/20221005090617/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/11/11/2003632205 05 October 2022 w:Taipei Times 1563-9525 464696902 Taiwan News 5 https://archive.ph/CRY0L If Basiandong is added to the list, it will be the third potential world heritage site in the county, after the Peinan Archeological Site in Beinan Township (zh 卑南) — the largest-known ancient stone coffin burial ground in the Pacific Rim area — and Orchid Island (zh 蘭嶼, also known as Lanyu).
en September 12, 2021 Typhoon alert lifted: Chanthu leaves Taiwan relatively unscathed https://web.archive.org/web/20210912180623/https://taiwanenglishnews.com/typhoon-alert-lifted-chanthu-leaves-taiwan-relatively-unscathed/ 12 September 2021 Taiwan English News https://archive.ph/xEkpr In Taitung County some damage to banana crops in Beinan Township was reported, but crop losses overall were not large, County Magistrate Rao Ching-ling said.
en
Synonyms
en Pinan
from Hokkien en Pilam
from Japanese en Hinan
Translations
rural township
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 卑南 Bēinán
References
en 2-syllable words