Taichung

See also: T'ai-chung

English

臺中市政府
TAICHUNG CITY GOVERNMENT

Alternative forms

• T'ai-chung (also from Wade–Giles)
• Taijhong (Tongyong Pinyin)
• Taizhong (Hanyu Pinyin)

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization of 臺中／台中 (Tʻai²-chung¹).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tīʹjo͞ongʹ, tīʹjo͝ongʹ IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪˈd͡ʒʊŋ/
• IPA^(key): /ˌtaɪˈt͡ʃʊŋ/, /-t͡ʃʌŋ/

Proper noun

Taichung

1. A city in central-western Taiwan.
   • 1947 January 10, Ralph J. Blake, REPORTS ON THE SITUATION IN FORMOSA (TAIWAN), PARTICULARLY RESPECTING FORMOSAN DISSATISFACTION WITH ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES OF THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT (Foreign Relations of the United States 1947)‎^[1], volume 7, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 424:

     The Jen Min Tao Pao, (consistently anti-American of recent months) on December 4 carried the following item, in full:
     "According to information released by the American Consulate, a large section of the United States Air Force will be stationed in the province and the airfield near Taichung has been chosen as its base. The USAAF is also intending to build a B-29 factory at Taichung and is positively making all preparations, it is said."
     A contract has been let to a Formosan firm to enlarge and repair an airfield and a factory near Taichung. It is, of course, assumed locally that in as much as China cannot produce airplanes, the United States government is behind the contract. Two Taichung persons called at the Consulate December 28 to confirm this, in order to plan "business" in connection with the expected influx of Americans.

   • 1952 January 31, “West Newton Missioner In Formosa”, in The Newton Graphic‎^[2], volume 80, Newton, Mass., page 1:

     On Formosa the Maryknoll Fathers have charge of the Prefecture of Taichung, ocated^{[sic – meaning located]} in the central part of the island. Some 1,500,000 people, mostly farmers, live there. The main crops in the area are rice, potatoes, vegetables, tobacco, sugar cane, tea, and fruit, while the chief industry is sugar refining.

   • 1983 April 10, “Sisterhood ties”, in Free China Weekly‎^[3], volume XXIV, number 14, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     Robert I. Schroder (second from right), speaker of the Contra Costa County Council and Chen Keng-chin (third from left), Taichung County magistrate show the documents signed to set up sister relations at a ceremony held in Taichung in central Taiwan. Schroader^{[sic – meaning Schroder]} headed a 40-member cultural and arts mission from California to attend the ceremony, the first of its kind held in Taichung County.

   • 2002 September, Nancy Brenner, “Changing Places”, in House Beautiful‎^[4], volume 144, number 9, page 77:

     A week earlier Tom and I had worn the same happy, uncomprehending faces as we stood in their home in Taichung for the Buddhist ceremony.

   • 2004, Phil Macdonald, National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 210:

     WITH A POPULATION OF ABOUT ONE MILLION, TAICHUNG is Taiwan's third largest city.

   • 2021 January 28, Melissa Eddy, Richard C. Paddock, Javier C. Hernández, Mike Ives, Amy Chang Chien, “Germany says vaccine shortages are likely to last another 10 weeks, and other news from around the world”, in New York Times‎^[5], archived from the original on 29 January 2021‎^[6]:

     A businessman from Taiwan has been fined more than $35,000 after he was caught on camera repeatedly breaking rules requiring him to quarantine at home. The man, who returned to Taiwan last week from mainland China, left his home seven times when he was supposed to be in isolation, according to officials in the city of Taichung, where he lives. Taiwan has some of the strictest quarantine rules in the world, a critical part of its success in fighting the virus, and the government routinely punishes and shames people found to be violating regulations. “This misbehavior was serious and must be punished heavily,” Lu Shiow-yen, the mayor of Taichung, said at a news conference this week.

   • 2021 December 27, Yimou Lee, Norihiko Shirouzu, David Lague, “Taiwan chip industry emerges as battlefront in U.S.-China showdown”, in Reuters‎^[7], archived from the original on 27 December 2021‎^[8]:

     The industry’s vulnerability was on display in July last year, when Taiwan mobilized thousands of troops to fight off a simulated Chinese attack on the west coast industrial city of Taichung, home to TSMC’s Gigafab 15, one of the foundries that make cutting-edge chips.[...]In the counter-invasion exercise, “enemy” paratroopers dropped on Ching Chuan Kang air base and captured the control tower, just nine minutes’ drive from Gigafab 15. Off the coast, a virtual Chinese invasion flotilla steamed towards the city’s beaches. Fighting enveloped Taichung as Taiwanese troops and tanks counterattacked to regain control of the air base; commanders called in airstrikes, missiles and artillery, using live ammunition to pound the “invasion fleet.” The invasion was repulsed.

Synonyms

• (from Japanese) Taichū

Translations

a large city in Taiwan

• Arabic: تايتشونج m (taytšūnḡ), تَايْجُونْغ m (tayjunḡ)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 臺中／台中 (toi⁴ zung¹)

  Hokkien: 台中 (Tâi-tiong)

  Mandarin: 臺中／台中 (zh) (Táizhōng) (seldom, trad. only) (simplified and traditional)

• Czech: Tchaj-čung
• German: Taichung
• Japanese: 台中 (ja) (たいちゅう, Taichū)
• Korean: 타이중(臺中) (Taijung)
• Macedonian: Тајчунг m (Tajčung), Тајџунг m (Tajdžung)
• Marathi: ताइचुंग n (tāicuṅga)
• Polish: Taizhong
• Portuguese: Taichung
• Russian: Тайчжу́н m (Tajčžún)
• Spanish: Taichung
• Vietnamese: Đài Trung (臺中)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Taichung”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[9], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3085, column 2
• “Taichung”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• Taichung, T'ai-chung, T'aichung, Tai-chung, Taizhong at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• “Taichung, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Taichung”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Taichung” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

Anagrams

• hugantic

Portuguese

Proper noun

Taichung f

1. Taichung (a city in Taiwan)