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Post by jsmile on Apr 10, 2014 1:35:49 GMT -5
Hi,
any information on finding this village would be helpful: 嘴頭村
The last name is Lee 李
Thanks!
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Post by lachinatown on Apr 10, 2014 9:16:26 GMT -5
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Post by jsmile on Apr 10, 2014 11:46:31 GMT -5
I was looking at the article, and it talks about a village in Shaanxi Province?
I was told that my ancestral village is in Toisan/Hoiping area so is it a different village?
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Post by lachinatown on Apr 10, 2014 11:52:35 GMT -5
Yes, all the results from Google search are in North China, far from Taishan. Now this will help that you mention Taishan. Will look little farther later.
Village database does not have this village under Lee and Taishan.
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Post by laohuaqiao on Apr 10, 2014 16:09:18 GMT -5
The village address is 广东省 江门市 台山市 大江镇 石桥村委会 咀头村 529259
A few of the nearby villages are listed in the village database, this is probably the correct one.
In ditu.google.cn, the village coordinates are "22.3962, 112.7901" , next to road S273. The big factory across the road is Jinqiao 金桥 aluminium factory, one of the the largest factories, if not the largest, in Taishan.
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Post by lachinatown on Apr 10, 2014 16:24:03 GMT -5
So is 咀 = 嘴 ? Lot of villages in the database have 頭 or 头 as second character.
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Post by laohuaqiao on Apr 10, 2014 17:02:55 GMT -5
So is 咀 = 嘴 ? Lot of villages in the database have 頭 or 头 as second character. 咀 and 嘴 are originally two different words, first pronounced as ju in mandarin is a verb meaning to take a small bite or to taste and the latter pronounced as zui is a noun meaning the mouth. In Cantonese, both words are pronounced the same. Over centuries, the two are mixed up and 咀 is used to mean either, or has become de facto simplified form of 嘴, but 嘴 can not be used to replace 咀.
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