Nantaoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 南頭／南头.

固有名詞

Nantao

1. Synonym of Nanshi.
   • 1904, C E Darwent, Shanghai: A Handbook for Travellers and Residents to the Chief Objects of Interest in and around the Foreign Settlement and Native City‎^[1], →OCLC, page 106:

     Those who have no intention of visiting the native city will get a better idea of it from this suburb of Nantao than from any Chinese street in the International Settlement.

   • 1937, 0:05 from the start, in Terror Strikes Deep in Nantao (Chinese flee as Japanese bomb Nantao (1937))‎^[2], Grumont British News (英国用法 Pathé), archived from the original on 08 September 2022:

     Bombers over Nantao: the native city in the south rocks with terrific explosions.
     The capture of this city was an all-important step in the advance upon Nanking the capital.

   • 1986, Nien Cheng, Life and Death in Shanghai‎^[3], published 1995, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 79:

     It’s my aunt. During the Japanese invasion, she lost everything when the Japanese soldiers burned her area of Nantao city.

   • 1990, Harriet Sergeant, Shanghai: Collision Point of Cultures, 1918-1939‎^[4], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11:

     Away to the south-west ran the French Concession, its tree-lined avenues gashes of green through the grey roofs. Between it and the river lay the misshapen circle of the old Chinese City of Nantao, the city wall long since gone,¹ the narrow, stone streets now clean of the beggars, pimps and street-hawkers that used to infest its gloom.

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