Matou

Alternative form of Madou.

Proper noun

  1. Alternative form of Madou.
    • In a related area, Li Kuo-san, “king of the turkey ranchers,” says his business, in Matou, southern Taiwan, should supply 6,000 to 8,000 chicks a month to the turkey-raising farmers and 1,700 turkeys a month to...
    • The large collection of divine messages is entitled The Great Enlightenment Dragon-Phoenix Precious Mirror for Awakening the Lost (Ta-chueh Lung- Seng hsing-mi pao-chien 大覺鳳醒迷寶鑑 hereinafter TCLF), published in 1965 by...
    • North of Tainan is Matou, a small and mostly uninteresting place except for its temple. - 1998, Robert Storey, “South-West Taiwan”, in Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 4th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 292, columns 1, 2:

Origin

From Mandarin 麻豆 (Mádòu), Wade–Giles romanization: Ma²-tou⁴.