Hsien-t'ao
English
Map including HSIEN-T'AO (XIANTAO) (DMA, 1985)
Etymology
From Mandarin 仙桃 (Xiāntáo) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsien¹-tʻao².
Proper noun
Hsien-t'ao
- Alternative form of Xiantao
- [1974, Ts'ui-jung Liu, “TRADE ON THE HAN RIVER AND ITSIMPACT ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT C. 1800-1911”, in Academia Sinica, →OCLC, archived from the original on May 31, 2021, page 20:
- They traveled from Lao-ho-k’ou to Hankow and recorded the number of boats they saw within fifteen to thirty minutes after leaving each place except the last part of the journey from Hsien-t’ao-chen 仙桃鎮 to Hankow.]
- 1979, Li Yü, Twelve Towers, 2nd edition, Chinese University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 121:
- In a few days the boat reached a place named Mart Hsien-tʻao where many bandits' boats were anchored.
Translations
Xiantao — see Xiantao
Further reading
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Sientaochen or Hsien-tao-chen”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1760, column 2
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