Tinpakとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the Postal Romanization of Cantonese 電白 / 电白 (din baak).

発音

• enPR: dēn′bäk′

固有名詞

Tinpak

1. (dated) Synonym of Dianbai: the Cantonese-derived name.
   • 1817, Henry Ellis, Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China; Comprising a Correct Narrative of the Public Transactions of the Embassy, of the Voyage to and from China, and of the Journey from the Mouth of the Pei-Ho to the Return to Canton‎, London: John Murray, page 59:

     At Tinpak the chief magistrate, who had become slightly acquainted with the English from residing a short time in the house of a Hong merchant at Canton, was remarkably attentive to the officers employed on the survey in the China seas, and even offered them his assistance in their particular pursuits.

   • 1895, E. J. Eitel, Europe in China: The History of Hongkong from the Beginning to the Year 1882‎, London: Luzac & Company, →OCLC, page 242:

     Junks from Pakhoi, Hoihow and Tinpak, in the south-west, commenced in 1846 a prosperous trade with Hongkong.

   • 1923, Maryknoll Mission Letters China‎, volume 1, New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 195:

     After two days in Shekkwat, we went on to Kaushing, only an hour away. This was formerly the prefectural city of Tinpak, before Maoming came into existence. The old walls are still standing, but as it was over five hundred years ago that Tinpak was divided, nobody knows anything about the old town.

   • 1926 May 28, “Spaniard May Fly Home from Manila”, in Oklahoma City Times‎, volume XXXVII, number 18, page 2, column 1:

     He will fly back to Spain if the condition of his damaged airplane at Tinpak, China, permits.

   • 1945 July 17, “Chinese Units Storm Suburbs of Kweilin”, in The Daily Sun‎, volume 28, number 28, page 1, column 5:

     The communique also announced that Tinpak, on the Kwangtung coast 150 miles west of Hong Kong, had been retaken.

   • 1945 July 20, “Chinese Recapture Jap Base in Kwangsi”, in The Bombay Chronicle‎, volume XXXIII, number 171, Bombay, →OCLC, page 5:

     In South China, the Chinese after recapturing Tinpak to disrupt the Japanese communications along the coastal highway between the Liuchow peninsula and Canton, have now advanced to a point 9 miles east of Tinpak.

   • 1945 September, “China (19 June to 18 July 45)”, in The Field Artillery Journal‎, volume 35, archived from the original on 06 January 2022, page 562:

     As the period closed Chinese troops retook Tinpak, cutting communications behind Japanese forces who advanced thirty-four miles to the area of Yanping.

   • 1975, Peter Ward Fay, “Peking in Earnest”, in The Opium War 1840-1842‎, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, published 1997, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 140:

     A Jardine Matheson schooner came in from the east coast with $15,000 in treasure, the proceeds of hardly more than forty chests, and there seemed nothing better to do than send her to join others on the west coast, for it was thought some opium might still be disposed of at Tinpak and other stations between Saint John Island (Shangch’uan) and Hainan.

   • 2005, A.B. Sainsbury, F.L. Phillips, The Royal Navy, Day by Day‎, 3rd edition, Sutton Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 380, column 2:

     1849 Boats of Medea captured and burned five pirate junks at Tinpak.

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