Toucheng

See also: tóuchéng

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 頭城 (Tóuchéng).

Proper noun

Toucheng

1. An urban township in Yilan County, Taiwan.
   • 1963, The Invincible Island: Ten Years of Reconstruction on Kinmen‎^[1], Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, →OCLC, page 25:

     f) Instituting training classes in 1954, 1955, and 1960 to give 48 fishermen training in fishing methods and engine operation, and sending nine fishermen to Taiwan to practise at the Toucheng township Fishermen's Association in Yilan […]

   • 1979 July 15, “Taiwan-Okinawa cable link”, in Free China Weekly‎^[2], volume XX, number 27, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:

     A ceremony to mark the opening of the first submarine cable between Taiwan and Okinawa, was held at Toucheng in Ilan, county, the cable’s Taiwan terminal.

   • 2020 June 22, “Ishigaki renames area containing Senkaku Islands, prompting backlash fears”, in The Japan Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 June 2020:

     Taiwan’s northeastern county of Yilan has adopted a proposal to rename the islands from “Tiaoyutai” to “Toucheng Tiaoyutai,” to include the name of a local township.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Toucheng.

Translations

urban township

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 頭城／头城 (zh) (Tóuchéng)