打狗

1. • Takow, Takao or Takau, old name for Kaohsiung 高雄 gāoxióng in the southwest of Taiwan

Character by character

• 打(dǎ)a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings
• 狗(gǒu)dog