Carstairs Douglas (Chinese: 杜嘉德; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tō͘ Ka-tek; 27 December 1830 in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire – 26 July 1877 in Xiamen, China) was a Scottish...
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Carstairs Carstairs (surname), a list of people and fictional characters Carstairs Douglas (1830–1877), Scottish missionary Carstairs Cumming Douglas...
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in Fife, the third son of Robert Douglas. Robert's brother, Carstairs' uncle, was the missionary Carstairs Douglas, after whom he was named. He was educated...
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ports opened to foreign trade by the Treaty of Nanking. In 1873, Carstairs Douglas published the Chinese–English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken...
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Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy (1873) by Carstairs Douglas, defined as "brine of pickled fish or shell-fish." Ketchup may have...
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On 16 June 1865, at the urging of missionaries H. L. Mackenzie and Carstairs Douglas, he established the first Presbyterian church in Taiwan, this date...
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start construction by 1859 and be completed at 1869. By 1873, Rev. Carstairs Douglas writes in his Hokkien dictionary that Singapore and the various Straits...
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Chinese–English dictionary of the vernacular or spoken language of Amoy, by Carstairs Douglas, 1873 Lear Ông, translation of King Lear by Tē Hūi-hun POJ was initially...
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花當; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoe-tǹg; lit. 'to spend and pawn'. Indeed as per Carstairs Douglas (1873), it can be found that in the Chinchew or Quanzhou dialect of...
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already has nine characters categorized into both initials. Rev. Carstairs Douglas has already observed the merger in the late 19th century. In some...
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