Tsingtao

English

Map of CH'ING-TAO (TSINGTAO)

Etymology

The postal romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 青島／青岛 (Qīngdǎo).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tsǐngʹtouʹ, chǐngʹdouʹ

Proper noun

Tsingtao

1. Alternative form of Qingdao

   • But the most serious situation developed out of Japanese participation in the World War. In the first place, the Japanese advance on Tsingtao put China as a neutral power in an anomalous position.

   • 1970, Ramon H. Myers, The Chinese Peasant Economy Agricultural Development in Hopei and Shantung, 1890-1949‎^[1], Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, page 22:

     Wagner was a German agricultural economist who in 1911 went to Tsingtao to teach in a German-Chinese Middle School. He later worked at the Litsun Agricultural Experimental Station in Shantung where he continued his studies of agriculture both past and present.

   • 1971, John C. Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China‎^[2], Minneapolis, Minn.: World Wide Publications, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 98:

     Into Nelson Bell's earphones squawked a message from the consul at Tsingtao and then from the American minister himself, "insisting that we leave." The decisive factor, however, was a frank acceptance that to stay might increase the difficulties of Chinese Christians when the victorious revolutionary army poured into North Kiangsu.

   • 1996, David Ritche, Shipwrecks: An Encyclopedia of the World's Worst Disasters at Sea‎^[3], Facts On File, →ISBN, page 269:

     1927, September 20. The Japanese steamship Gentoku Maru capsized in Tsingtao (Ch'ing-tao) Bay, China, killing 278.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tsingtao.

Anagrams

• Angottis, tangoist, toasting

Further reading

• “Tsingtao”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Tsingtao”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Tsingtao”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Tsingtao” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.