院臺法字

English translation: Executive Yuan of Taiwan Legal Number

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Chinese term or phrase:	院臺法字
English translation:	Executive Yuan of Taiwan Legal Number
Entered by:	anastasia t (X)

04:25 Sep 5, 2006

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Chinese term or phrase: 院臺法字

term for governmental memo/documents in Taiwan, ie., 院臺法字XXXXXXXX號函 please google the term for more examples.

Will Wong KudoZ activity Questions: 14 (none open) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 209 United States
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Executive Yuan of Taiwan Legal Number

Explanation:
According to my google search, there doesn't seem to be any official translation for it yet. Most gov. departments conveniently leave this out in their "english version" on the web sites.

I think it's okay for you to set the precedent.

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anastasia t (X)
Local time: 19:55

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Thanks Anastasia! And thanks for everyone's input.
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Executive Yuan of Taiwan Legal Number

anastasia t (X)

(Reference) Yuan Tai Fa

Francis Fine

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peer agreement (net): +3

Executive Yuan of Taiwan Legal Number

anastasia t (X)
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Thanks Anastasia! And thanks for everyone's input.

14 hrs confidence:

(Reference) Yuan Tai Fa

Explanation:
These are arbitarily assigned "reference words". Here, it might be in a single document or letter. Actually and in public documents, the use of reference words, reference letters is universal. You see them in purchase orders (UXst2004), application forms, tax return forms, passport/ID card numbers, etc. The best way of translating them is to ignore their meaning and try to change as little as possible their original form. In rendering Chinese reference words into Western languages, I suggest transliterate them using the standard romanization method (such as the old Wade/Giles system which is relatively prevalent method up to this time, and get: yuan tai fa or yuan tai fa zi). However, with the new Hanyu Pinyin which is now more widespread all over the world and also gaining ground in Taiwan, it would be: (yuan dai fa or yuan dai fa zi)

Example sentence(s):

All official documents in Taiwan bear such reference words.

Francis Fine
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Local time: 04:55
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