Qidu
English
Alternative forms
- Ch'i-tu, Chitu (Wade–Giles)
Pronunciation
- enPR: chēʹdo͞oʹ[1]
Etymology 1
From the Hanyu Pinyin[2] romanization of the Mandarin 七堵 (Qīdǔ).
Alternative forms
Proper noun
Qidu
- A district of Keelung, Taiwan.
- 2022 March 10, George Liao, “Man charged for growing marijuana in northern Taiwan”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 10 March 2022, Society:
- A man surnamed Chen (陳) on Wednesday (March 9) was charged with growing marijuana at his residence in Qidu District, Keelung City.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Qidu.
Translations
Etymology 2
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 七都 (Qīdū).
Proper noun
Qidu
- A town in Wujiang district, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
- 2023 May 21, “China’s traditional Kunqu Opera brings puppetry to life”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 August 2023:
- Puppeteers perform a Kunqu Opera play in Qidu Town in Wujiang District of Suzhou City, China.
References
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Chitu or Ch’i-tu”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 402, column 1
- “Taiwan place names”, in Pinyin.info, 2006, archived from the original on 2006-10-01:
- This list of city and county names of places in Taiwan gives Chinese characters, Hanyu Pinyin, Tongyong Pinyin, and a commonly seen older form (usually bastardized Wade-Giles). […] 鄉鎮市區別 / Hanyu Pinyin (recommended) / Hanyu Pinyin (with tones) / Tongyong Pinyin / old forms […] 七堵區 / Qidu / Qīdǔ / Cidu / Chitu
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