Taiping

See also: tàipíng, Tàipíng, Tai Ping, Tai-p'ing, Tai-ping, and Taï-ping

English

Alternative forms

• Tai-ping, Tai-p'ing, T'ai-p'ing
• Tai Ping

Etymology

From Mandarin Chinese 太平 (Tàipíng, literally “Great Peace, Great Pacified Region”).

Proper noun

Taiping

1. (historical) The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, a rebel state in southern, eastern, and central China during the mid-19th century.
   • [1898, Harlan P. Beach, Dawn on the Hills of Tʻang‎^[1], New York, →OCLC, page 154:

     Chiang-su was the main centre of the great Tʻai Pʻing rebellion, Nanking being the rebel capital from 1853 to 1864.]

   • 2015, Valerie M. Hudson, The Hillary Doctrine : Sex and American Foreign Policy‎^[2], Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 81:

     The Nien Rebellion was made up of insurgents who opposed the Qing dynasty, which also had to contend with yet another movement, the Taiping, which was active in the south.

2. Various districts, towns, townships, mountains, and islands in China, Taiwan, and Malaysia.
   • 2022 April 28, “China says Taiwan ‘playing with fire’ over alleged Taiping Island plans”, in Radio Free Asia‎^[3], archived from the original on 28 April 2022‎^[4]:

     Taiping, also known as Itu Aba, is the biggest natural feature in the Spratly islands. It is currently occupied by Taiwan but is also claimed by China, the Philippines and Vietnam.

   1. A city in Perak, Malaysia.
   2. A district of Taichung, Taiwan.
      • 1981 April 5, “Youths in ROC vow to carry out national goals”, in Free China Weekly‎^[5], volume XXII, number 13, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4:

        In Taiwan province, a gathering attended by 10,000 people was held at Pingling military camp in Taiping village, Taichung county.

      • 2018 September 6, M. Chuang, “登革熱再增7病例 中市6例.高市1例 [CDC Confirms Seven New Dengue Fever Cases]”, in Public Television Service‎^[6], archived from the original on 07 September 2018‎^[7]:

        In tracing the history of the cases, it found that a 60-year-old female patient in Taichung's Taiping District Xinguang Borough began experiencing symptoms including fever in mid-August.

3. (historical) Taiping Prefecture, a former prefecture of China located west of Nanjing during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
4. (uncommon) Victoria Peak in Hong Kong.

Noun

Taiping (plural Taipings)

1. (historical) A member of the Taiping rebels during the mid-19th century.
   • 2014, Encyclopædia Britannica, "Taiping Rebellion":

     Under the Taipings, the Chinese language was simplified, and equality between men and women was decreed.

Translations

Taiping

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 太平 (zh) (Tàipíng)

• French: Taiping
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: Thái Bình (vi)

Anagrams

• antipig