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  • noun metrology Symbol for the terasecond, an SI unit of time equal to 1012 seconds.

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  • See Ts'ao Yung-ho 曹永和, "Huan Zhongguo haiyu jiaoliu shi shang de Taiwan he Riben" 環中國海域交流史上的臺灣和日本, in Ts'ao Yung-ho, Taiwan zaoqi lishi yanjiu xuji 臺灣早期歷史研究續集 (Taipei: Lianjing 聯經 Press, 2000), 1 – 36, esp.

    How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

  • But one of the most powerful kings of Ts'in (249-244) was called Tsz-ts'u, or "Don Brushwood," so his successor the First August Emperor (who was really a bastard, and not of genuine Ts'in blood at all) _tabu'd_ the word Ts'u, and ordered historians to use the old name King instead.

    Ancient China Simplified Edward Harper Parker 1887

  • Pao-yü therefore lay himself down at the back of Madame Wang, and called Ts'ai

    Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

  • Pao-yü would not believe it, and lady Feng at once called Ts'ai Ming to look up the list, which she handed for Pao-yü's inspection; but while they were arguing a servant came in to announce that Chao Erh, who had gone to Su Chow, had returned, and lady Feng all in a flurry directed that he should be asked to walk in.

    Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

  • Ou-yang Hsiu, writing in the middle of the 11th century, calls Ts ` ao Kung, Tu Mu and Ch ` en Hao the three chief commentators on Sun Tzu, and observes that Ch ` en Hao is continually attacking Tu Mu's shortcomings.

    The Art of War 6th cent. B.C. Sunzi

  • There way also a rock, known as Tsê'-nanlki'ñ, "Rock-that-runs," which "lived" at Cieneguilla, east of the Rio Grande and southwest of Taos.

    The Jicarilla Genesis 1898

  • Kwang are still called Ts'in, Tsin, Ts'i, and Ts'u in high-class official correspondence; and so with all other place-names.

    Ancient China Simplified Edward Harper Parker 1887

  • Ts'i, and the Jungle struggled, first for hegemony, and finally for the possession of all China, The Jungle was now called Ts'u.

    Ancient China Simplified Edward Harper Parker 1887

  • The words "Jungle savages" apply to the country later called Ts'u; but as Wu, when we first hear of her, was a subordinate country belonging to Ts'u; and as in any case the word

    Ancient China Simplified Edward Harper Parker 1887

  • It must, therefore, always be remembered that Wu, though barbarous in its population, was, in its origin as an organized system of rule, a colony created by certain ancestors of the founder of the Chou dynasty, who had voluntarily gone off to carve out an appanage in the Jungle; i.e. in the vague unknown dominion later called Ts'u, of which dominion all coast regions were a part, so far as they could be reduced to submission.

    Ancient China Simplified Edward Harper Parker 1887

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