Taichow

name

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of Taizhou. alt-of, alternative

    "And at the end of the journey Taichow itself, a wretched fishing village inside a grandly bastioned, high-walled, moat-encircled town enclosure, with a beach of rough shingle covered with stinking fish in the process of sun-curing—Taichow without a single other European inhabitant, Taichow which prides itself on its pirates, its oysters and its groves of square-stemmed bamboos."

Etymology

The postal romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 台州 (Tāizhōu) and 泰州 (Tàizhōu).

Next best steps

Mini challenge

Unscramble this word: taichow