Taishan

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A county-level city of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China; a former county of Guangdong, China.

    "The Chinese Communist power struggle has not benefited the people. The following verse started circulating in the Taishan area near Canton not long ago."

  2. 2
    A district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.

Example

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"The Chinese Communist power struggle has not benefited the people. The following verse started circulating in the Taishan area near Canton not long ago."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 臺山 /台山 (Táishān).

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 泰山 (Tàishān).

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.