Tamsui

English

Etymology

From romanization of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Min Nan 淡水 (Tām-súi).

Proper noun

Tamsui

1. A district in New Taipei City, northern Taiwan.
   • 1902, Archibald Ross Colquhoun, The Mastery of the Pacific‎^[1], Macmillan Company, page 385:

     After the war between Great Britain and China, which culminated in 1860 in the Treat of Tientsin, two Formosan ports, Takau and Tamsui, were thrown open to foreign trade in accordance with provisions in that treaty, and British subjects and missionaries were to be allowed safe-conducts in the island.

Translations

a city in Taiwan

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 淡水 (daam⁶ seoi²)

  Hakka: 淡水 (Tham-súi)

  Mandarin: 淡水 (zh) (Dànshǔi)

  Min Nan: 淡水 (Tām-chúi)

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 淡水 (ja) (たんすい, Tansui)

Anagrams

• Matsui, Tauism, autism