Beidou

See also: bēidōu and Běidǒu

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 北斗 (Běidǒu).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: bāʹdōʹ[1]

Proper noun

Beidou

  1. An urban township in Changhua County, Taiwan.
    • 2011 April 7, Noah Buchan, “Walking with Matsu”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 April 2011, Home / Features, page 13:
      At 2am on April 22 last year, I departed Chengan Temple (奠安宮) in Changhua County’s Beidou Township (北斗) surrounded by thousands of Matsu devotees.

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References

  1. Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Peitow or Pei-tou”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1446, column 1
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