布袋

/pu⁵¹⁻⁵³ taɪ̯⁵¹/

/pou̯³³ tɔːi̯²²/

/pou̯³³ tɔːi̯²²⁻³⁵/

/pɔu⁴² ⁽ᵗ⁻⁾lø¹¹/

/pɔu⁴² ⁽ᵗ⁻⁾lø²¹/

/pɔ²¹⁻⁴¹ te³³/

/pɔ¹¹⁻⁵³ te³³/

/pɔ²¹⁻⁵³ te²²/

/pɔ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ tə⁴¹/

/pou²¹³⁻⁵⁵ to¹¹/

/pu⁵¹⁻⁵³ taɪ̯⁵¹/

/pou̯³³ tɔːi̯²²/

/pou̯³³ tɔːi̯²²⁻³⁵/

/pɔu⁴² ⁽ᵗ⁻⁾lø¹¹/

/pɔu⁴² ⁽ᵗ⁻⁾lø²¹/

/pɔ²¹⁻⁴¹ te³³/

/pɔ¹¹⁻⁵³ te³³/

/pɔ²¹⁻⁵³ te²²/

/pɔ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ tə⁴¹/

/pou²¹³⁻⁵⁵ to¹¹/

(～鎮) Budai (an urban township in Chiayi County, Taiwan)


Spratly Islands

Named after British whaling captain Richard Spratly who sighted the islands in 1843.

named-after

On the other hand, two moves by Japan during this period may have a certain significance. The first was announcement of Japanese occupation of the Spratly islands on March 31, complemented by the annexation, on April 18, of a group of reefs and islets 300 miles long between French Indo-China, the Philippines and British North Borneo in the South China Sea.[…]
The line of least resistance, however, clearly lies toward the south. France and Britain, in particular, would have small military and naval forces at their disposal to protect their eastern possession; or the oil of the Dutch East Indies—for Japan the greatest prize of all. The occupation of Hainan and the Spratly islands has already pointed the way. Only one serious obstacle threatens attainment of this objective: the United States.

1939 April 21, T. A. Bisson, “Roosevelt Appeal Jolts Dictators”, in Foreign Policy Bulletin, volume XVIII, number 26, Foreign Policy Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 2-3:

Japan has strengthened its naval position during the war by occupying Hainan Island, located midway between Hong Kong and French Indo-China and squarely athwart the sea route from Hong Kong to Singapore, and the Spratly Islands, off the coast of Indo-China, a little group of coral reefs which may be useful as advanced submarine bases.[…]
Japan remained relatively passive during the first weeks of the new crisis generated by Hitler’s eastward march and the efforts of Great Britain to forge a wall of resistance among the East European countries. The seizure of the Spratly Islands, a small group of coral reefs off the southeastern coast of Indo-China, was a minor operation, although this would certainly not have taken place if France had not been too much concerned in Europe to assert its right of ownership over the Spratly group.

1942, William Henry Chamberlin, “Can Japan Rule East Asia?”, in Japan Over Asia, Revised and Enlarged edition, Garden City, NY: Blue Ribbon Books, →OCLC, pages 424, 430:

In the eastern hemisphere the Japanese occupied the island of Hainan off French Indo-China; annexed the Spratly islands further south, between Indo-China and Borneo; and continued local gains in north China.

1945 January 20, “Seven New Year's Days”, in Army Talks, volume III, number 2, page 5:

The Spratly Islands in the South China Sea are still occupied by troops of the Republic of China, according to Major General Li Chang-hao, spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense.

1975 May 11, “ROC still holds Spratly Islands; no Red challenge”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 18, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

As far as can be determined, all of the Spratly Islands are capped by active coral reef and there are no other rock outcrops. Most of the ‘islands’ are under water at high tide, but some maintain a partial low elevation of a rim surrounding a lagoon, in which case they are sparsely vegetated and inhabited by sea birds. There are no indigenous human inhabitants, but tourists visit for diving and fishing and the military occupy many for territorial claims.

2010 October 9, Charles S. Hutchison, V.R. Vijayan, “What are the Spratly Islands?”, in Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, volume 39, number 5, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

A United States P8A surveillance aircraft flying near the disputed Spratly islands in the South China Sea on May 20 was asked by the Chinese navy to leave the area.

2015 May 21, “Chinese navy warns off U.S. reconnaissance plane over Spratlys”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 2022-09-27, Cross-Strait:

On December 10, a flotilla of 40 boats set off from the Philippine coastal town of El Nido in Palawan province to a group of islets and shoals in the South China Sea called the Spratly Islands, parts of which are claimed by several countries.

2023 December 26, Wesley Rahn, “Why the South China Sea was turbulent in 2023”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2023-12-26, Conflicts:

A group of islands, atolls, reefs, and cays in the South China Sea.


學府

/ɕy̯ɛ³⁵ fu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/hɔːk̚² fuː³⁵/

/hak̚⁴⁻³² hu⁵³/

/hak̚²⁴⁻² hu⁵⁵⁴/

/hak̚¹²¹⁻²¹ hu⁵³/

/hak̚⁴⁻³² hu⁵³/

/hak̚⁴⁻³² hu⁴¹/

/ɕy̯ɛ³⁵ fu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/hɔːk̚² fuː³⁵/

/hak̚⁴⁻³² hu⁵³/

/hak̚²⁴⁻² hu⁵⁵⁴/

/hak̚¹²¹⁻²¹ hu⁵³/

/hak̚⁴⁻³² hu⁵³/

/hak̚⁴⁻³² hu⁴¹/

(～里) an urban village in Tamsui district, New Taipei City, Taiwan


新生

/ɕin⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/

/sɐn⁵⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵/

/sin⁴⁴⁻³³ siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/sin⁴⁴⁻²² siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/sin³³ sŋ̍³³/

/ɕin⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/

/sɐn⁵⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵/

/sin⁴⁴⁻³³ siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/sin⁴⁴⁻²² siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/sin³³ sŋ̍³³/


安南

/ˀän⁵⁵ nän³⁵/

/ɔːn⁵⁵ naːm²¹/

/an⁴⁴⁻³³ lam²³/

/an⁴⁴⁻³³ lam²⁴/

/ˀän⁵⁵ nän³⁵/

/ɔːn⁵⁵ naːm²¹/

/an⁴⁴⁻³³ lam²³/

/an⁴⁴⁻³³ lam²⁴/

(～區) Annan (a district of Tainan, Taiwan)


岡山

/kɑŋ⁵⁵ ʂän⁵⁵/

/kɔːŋ⁵⁵ saːn⁵⁵/

/kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² san⁴⁴/

/kɔŋ³³ san³³/

/kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² san⁴⁴/

/kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ san⁴⁴/

/kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ san⁴⁴/

/kɑŋ⁵⁵ ʂän⁵⁵/

/kɔːŋ⁵⁵ saːn⁵⁵/

/kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² san⁴⁴/

/kɔŋ³³ san³³/

/kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² san⁴⁴/

/kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ san⁴⁴/

/kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ san⁴⁴/

; Okayama, Japan
; Gangshan District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

(～區) Gangshan (a suburban district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan)


岡山

ja-pos

岡(おか)山(やま) • (Okayama) ^(←をかやま (Wokayama)?)

岡山(かんしゃん) or 岡山(カンシャン) • (Kanshan)

岡山 (canonical)
Okayama (romanization)
Wokayama (romanization)
をかやま (hiragana historical)
岡山 (canonical)
岡山 (canonical)
Kanshan (romanization)

Kangshan, Gangshan (a suburban district of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan)


金山

→ English: Chinshan, Jinshan, → Gold Mountain (calque)

/t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ʂän⁵⁵/

/kim³³ san³³⁻³³⁵/

/t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ʂän⁵⁵/

/kim³³ san³³⁻³³⁵/

For some geographical locations, the name refers to the gold rush in the 19th century. (The term is being used loosely for any place of great chances for wealth in a similar fashion to the English "gold mine".)

(～區, formerly ～鄉) Jinshan, Chinshan (a district and former rural township in New Taipei City, Taiwan)


琉球

ja-r

琉球(りゅうきゅう) (ryūkyū)

ryu-r

琉球(るーちゅー) (rūchū)

琉球(どぅーちゅー) (dūchū)

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (琉球):
* → Japanese: 琉球(りゅうきゅう) (ryūkyū)
* → Okinawan: 琉球(るーちゅー) (rūchū); 琉球(どぅーちゅー) (dūchū)
* → Vietnamese: Lưu Cầu (琉球), lưu cầu (琉球)

→ Manchu: ᠯᡳᠣ
ᡴᡳᠣ (lio kio)

→ Portuguese: leque

/li̯oʊ̯³⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵/

/lɐu̯²¹ kʰɐu̯²¹/

/l̃ieu⁵³⁻³³ ⁽ᵏ⁻⁾ieu⁵³/

/liu²³⁻³³ kʰiu²³/

/liu²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰiu²⁴/

/liɤ²² d͡ʑiɤ⁴⁴/

/li̯oʊ̯³⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵/

/lɐu̯²¹ kʰɐu̯²¹/

/l̃ieu⁵³⁻³³ ⁽ᵏ⁻⁾ieu⁵³/

/liu²³⁻³³ kʰiu²³/

/liu²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰiu²⁴/

/liɤ²² d͡ʑiɤ⁴⁴/

First attested in 《隋書》 (636) as 流求 (MC ljuw gjuw). Further origin unknown.

On August fifteenth, the boat will be leaving the harbour of Xiaoliuqiu Island.

陳一郎, 行船人的純情曲

Poeh-goe̍h cha̍p-gō͘ hit chi̍t kang, chûn beh lī-khui Liû-khiû káng.

八月十五彼一天，船要離開琉球港。

陳一郎, 行船人的純情曲

八月十五彼一天，船要离开琉球港。

(～嶼) Liuqiu (an island of Pingtung County, Taiwan)

(～鄉) Liuqiu (a township in Pingtung County, Taiwan)


白河

/paɪ̯³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/paːk̚² hɔː²¹/

/pe(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ ho¹³/

/pe(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ hɤ²³/

/paɪ̯³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/paːk̚² hɔː²¹/

/pe(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ ho¹³/

/pe(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ hɤ²³/

(～區) Baihe (a district of Tainan, Taiwan)


大社

/tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂɤ⁵¹/

/taːi̯²² sɛː¹³/

/tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂɤ⁵¹/

/taːi̯²² sɛː¹³/

(～區) Dashe (a district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan)


金沙

desc

→ English: Chinsha, Chin-sha, Chin Sha, Jinsha, Kinsha

/t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ʂä⁵⁵/

/kɐm⁵⁵ saː⁵⁵/

/t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ʂä⁵⁵/

/kɐm⁵⁵ saː⁵⁵/

(～鎮) Jinsha (an urban township in Kinmen County, Taiwan)


Jinsha

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 金沙 (Jīnshā, literally “golden sand”).

Kinsha (alternative)
Kin-sha (alternative)
Kin Sha (alternative)
Chinsha (alternative)
Chin-sha (alternative)
Chin Sha (alternative)
Jin Sha (alternative also)
Jingsha (alternative misspelling)

Jinsha, located in the northeast of Kinmen Island, is subjected to powerful northeastern winds every monsoon season.

2005, 台灣鄉鎮之美 [Taiwan Town and Country], 遠流出版事業股份有現公司, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 184:

The two elementary-school students graduating this year, Yang Hao-lung (楊昊龍) and Chang Wei-shih (張煒世), started out from the school at 8:30am yesterday and jogged to Jinsha Township (金沙) Office before riding a tandem bicycle to the entrance of the ancient trail into Taiwu Mountain (太武山), bordered by the Tsai (蔡) family’s ancestral house.

2015 June 23, Jake Chung, “Students graduate on Taiwu Mountain”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-21, Taiwan News:

The Supreme Court sentenced former KMT Mayor of Jinsha Township (金沙鎮) in Kinmen County (金門縣) to 11 years in prison on bribery and abuse of public office charges.

2018 June 8, Scott Morgan, “Former Mayor in Kinmen County, Taiwan sentenced to 11 years on bribery charges”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2018-06-14, Society:

The pig carcass was discovered on New Year’s Eve on a beach in the township of Jinsha. Kinmen lies just off the Chinese coast and authorities say the pig floated the short distance from the mainland.

2019 January 4, Charlie Storrar, “VIDEO: Pig infected with ASF washes up on Kinmen”, in Radio Taiwan International, archived from the original on 2022-10-21:

At Jindong cinema in Kinmen's Jinsha Township, two 184cm tall Wind Lion God statues and eight smaller ones were displayed with other cinema related and Kinmen-themed items built by Lego certified professional Rack Huang (黃智彥).

2020 September 28, Huei-min Huang, Kay Liu, “Kinmen holds Lego-themed event in restored cinema”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 2020-10-01:

The shortest distance between Jinsha Township and the mainland China is from Mashan to Jiaoyu, which is only 1,800 meters at low tide.

(Can we date this quote?), “Jinsha Township”, in Kinmen County Government, archived from the original on 2022-08-10:

An urban township in Kinmen County, Taiwan.


Jinsha

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 津沙 (Jīnshā).

These establishments charge a premium due to their proximity to the port, but with the exception of the Holiday Hotel (see p.485) none are worth the price, and you'll do much better heading to one of the atmospheric homestays at either Jinsha or Nioujiao village.

2007, Stephen Keeling, Brice Minnigh, The Rough Guide to Taiwan (Rough Guides), Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 487:

Jinsha One of the archipelago’s most attractive villages, Jinsha has benefited from local government subsidies to preserve and restore traditional one- and two-storey granite houses.

2014, Steven Crook, Taiwan (Bradt Guides), 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 330:

Homestays are springing up in the villages of Fuxing, Jinsha and Qingshui, which have restored their traditional houses to make the towns a better match to the lovely surroundings.

2014, Robert Kelly, Chung Wah Chow, “Taiwan's Islands”, in Taiwan, 9th edition (Travel), Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 293, column 2:

Continuing along the coast past pretty Jinsha village (津沙), there’s a succession of lovely views over the ocean all the way to Magang (馬港), once the main gateway to Matsu for ships from Taiwan.

2017 September 15, Richard Saunders, “Off the Beaten Track: Nangan island: Gateway to stunning Matsu”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-09-14, Features, page 2:

A village in Nangan, Lienchiang County, Taiwan.


New Taipei

c. 2008, calque of Chinese 新北 (Xīnběi) as New + Taipei, officially adopted in 2010.

Arson has not been ruled out in a fire that broke out Friday in Yungho, New Taipei, causing one death and 24 injuries, the city's fire department said that day.

2014 September 12, “Deadly New Taipei blaze: arson suspected”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 2022-10-03, Society:

In what has been seen as a fiercely contested match, Hou faced stiff competition from Su, a veteran politician in Taiwan, who proved his mettle governing at the local level as the magistrate of Taipei County for two terms between 1997 and 2004. Taipei County was upgraded to the status as a special municipality in 2010 and renamed New Taipei.

2018 November 24, Tzu-ti Huang, “Taiwan elections: KMT candidate wins race for New Taipei mayor”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2018-11-24:

Housing prices have started to fall by about 5-10% since the beginning of 2015, and the house price-to-income ratios in Taipei and New Taipei are 14.9 and 12.43, respectively.

2019, International Housing Market Experience and Implications for China (Routledge Studies in International Real Estate), →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:

In July, the New Taipei city government organized a large-scale drill with its disaster services and the Defense Ministry. Included for the first time was urban warfare, such as how first responders would react to an attack on a train station or a port.

2022 September 4, Huizhong Wu, “Military reserves, civil defense worry Taiwan as China looms”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-09-05:

A special municipality in northern Taiwan.

Ministry of the Interior (Taiwan)
New Taipei City


Hualien

From Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 花蓮 /花莲 (Hua¹-lien²).

Hua-lien (alternative also)
Hualian (alternative Hanyu-Pinyin)
Hwalien (alternative)

Save some time by flying from Taipei to Hualien (45 minutes) in order to drive part-way along the hand-chiseled East Coast Highway. This road goes through spectacular Taroko Gorge, where marble walls rise from 1,000 to 2,000 feet above the sea. One section goes through 85 tunnels, which have windows cut in the sides to facilitate sightseeing.

1962 October 10, “Foreign Travel : In the Pacific . . . and in Britain . . . some travel bargains”, in Sunset, page 16:

The 120-mile East-West Cross-Island Highway, running from just outside Hualien, a city facing the Pacific, across the island's high mountain spine to Tungshih, near Taichung, is on no account to be missed.
...
Midway down the island, the Suao-Hualien Highway dips and snakes for 69 tortuous miles across the face of black-rock cliffs that plunge as much as 2,600 feet into the perpetually raging Pacific.

1989 December 10, Arthur Zich, “That Other China”, in Connoisseur, pages 134-135:

Cheng Yen begins each day at 3:50 a.m., awakening from a floor mat in her monastery outside Taiwan's mountainous coastal city of Hualien.[...]
Her standing in Taiwan is so high that all three presidential candidates in the March election traveled to Hualien to seek her blessing.

2000 October 24, “Cheng Yen”, in BusinessWeek, page 72:

The 2020 Citizens Sports Games are almost here. This year the setting is none other than the beautiful scenery of Hualien.
These games for the general public will kick off on Oct. 17 and showcase 28 events over six days. More than 15,000 people are expected to converge on Hualien to watch the action.

2020 October 7, 0:00 from the start, in 2020 Citizens Sports Games bring athletes to the beautiful scenery of Hualien, Formosa Television:

A train derailed and the roof of a platform collapsed at Dongli Station in Hualien County, President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan said in a message on Facebook.

2022 September 18, Austin Ramzy, “Powerful Earthquake Strikes Taiwan, Killing at Least 1”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-09-19, Asia Pacific:

Taiwan television stations showed footage of buildings at precarious angles in the sparsely populated eastern county of Hualien, near the quake's epicentre.[…]
Taiwan's Central Weather Administration said the earthquake registered the second-highest intensity of an "Upper 6" in Hualien county, on the 1-7 intensity scale.

2024 April 3, Ben Blanchard, Shanghai and Hong Kong newsrooms, Bernard Orr, “Taiwan hit by strongest quake in 25 years, buildings damaged”, in Tom Hogue, Himani Sarkar, Lincoln Feast, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2024-04-03, Asia Pacific:

The industry is centred in Kaohsiung and Hualien, and "after the Japanese surrender the factories were taken over by the Chinese Government.

1946 September 14, “Aluminium in Formosa”, in The Chemical Age, volume LV, number 1420, London, page 327:

The Mei Lun industrial park near Hualien city in eastern Taiwan offers a good opportunity for local and overseas Chinese businessmen to establish factories.

1979 July 29, “Industrial park to aid progress in E. Taiwan”, in Free China Weekly, volume XX, number 29, Taipei, page 4:

There was a 408 train headed down the east side of Taiwan, uh, north of the city of Hualien, and what apparently happened is, judging by some of the aerial images we've seen, some kind of a vehicle was on a road above the railroad, as it was coming along a steep mountain, a coastline, and some kind of construction truck skidded down the side of this mountain close to the railroad tracks, and the train hit it.

2021 April 3, Ivan Watson, 0:19 from the start, in Passenger train carrying 490 derails in Taiwan, killing at least 50 and injuring dozens, CNN, archived from the original on 2021-04-04:

A city in and the administrative seat of Hualien County, Taiwan.


Hualien

de-proper noun

Hualien n (proper noun, genitive Hualiens or (optionally with an article) Hualien)

Hualiens (genitive)
Hualien (genitive with-article)


Nantou

From Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 南投 (Nántóu) Wade–Giles romanization: Nan²-tʻou².

The island-wide spleen survey carried out in 1953 (Demos, Ch'enk & Hsieh, 1954; Wu, 1956) showed the following pattern of malaria endemicity in Taiwan (see Fig. 2):
(i) hypoendemic regions (spleen rate below 10%) at altitudes of over 1000 metres (with the exception of a few villages at altitudes of 1000-1300 metres in Nantou Hsien of Central Taiwan), and the municipal centres, southwestern coastal townships, and Penghu;[…]

1958, “Malaria Control and Eradication in Taiwan Progress Report, May 1952 to June 1957”, in Bulletin of the World Health Organization, volume 19, number 4, page 601:

He confidently tends his crops and rears his family in Nantou County on Formosa's gardenlike west-central plain.

1965, Albert Ravenholt, “Awakening the Land”, in The World Book Yearbook, page 135:

Hardest hit by the flooding and landslides was Nantou County, where 14 persons were reported killed, two injured and several others missing.

1983 June 12, “People working together soften impact of floods”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXIV, number 23, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou on Thursday approved a visit next week by the Dalai Lama to the typhoon-hit island in a move analysts say could damage Taipei's efforts to improve ties with China.
"We have decided to agree to the Dalai Lama's visit to pray for the souls of the deceased and seek blessings for the survivors of the typhoon," Ma told reporters in central Nantou county.

2009 August 27, “Dalai Lama invite incurs Chinese wrath”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2010-07-22:

Mr. Chen had returned from Hong Kong in late October and was undergoing the required two-week quarantine at a friend’s home in the central city of Nantou when a group of debt collectors showed up one night, the Justice Ministry in Taiwan said last week.

2021 February 2, Amy Qin, “Covid-19 Live Updates: Virus Variants Continue to Evolve, Sometimes in Dangerous Ways”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-02-02:

A city in and the administrative seat of Nantou County, Taiwan.


Banqiao

/ˌbɑːnˈt͡ʃjaʊ/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 板橋／板桥 (Bǎnqiáo).

zh-l

板橋／板桥 (Bǎnqiáo)

Panchiao (alternative)
Pan-chiao (alternative)
Pan-ch'iao (alternative)
Banciao (alternative)

As mentioned in the first chapter, entrusting university professors as chief managers for restoration projects of national cultural assets has been patterned after the project of Lin family's garden at Banqiao, Taipei County.

2003, Chen-shan Ellen Wang, “The New Restoration Project”, in Historic Preservation in Taiwan: The Restoration of Tainan Da Tianhou Gong (Thesis), University of Pennsylvania, →OCLC, page 56:

The principal purpose of this paper is to explain the differences of the Lin Family's Garden in Ban-chiau, Taiwan and the Gardens in South China.

[2011, Lan-Shiang (黃蘭翔) Huang, “臺灣板橋林本源園林的真假與虛實 [The True Mingled with the False at Lin Family's Garden in Ban-chiau, Taiwan]”, in 國立臺灣大學美術史研究集刊, volume 30, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

Gou was speaking as more than 100 people crowded into Ci Hui temple in Banqiao, New Taipei City, where the billionaire executive was born and grew up.

2019 April 16, Yimou Lee, Anne Marie Roantree, “Foxconn's Gou says will follow order of sea goddess to run for Taiwan presidency”, in Muralikumar Anantharaman, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-04-07, Consumer Products & Retail News:

Meanwhile, New Taipei's Banqiao District tallied 26 days in July in which the temperature rose above 35 degrees, while also reporting a record high July temperature of 39.4 degrees, according to the CWB.

2022 August 4, Hsiung-feng Chang, Matthew Mazzetta, “Taiwan records historically hot, dry weather in July”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 2022-08-04, Society:

A district, the administrative seat of New Taipei City, Taiwan.


Pingtung

c. 1940s, from Wade–Giles romanization of Chinese 屏東 (Píngdōng) Wade-Giles romanization: Pʻing²-tung¹.

P'ing-tung (alternative also)
Ping Tung (alternative also)
Pingdong (alternative Hanyu-Pinyin)

Another obvious deficiency of the Nationalists is their lack of understanding of the importance of maintaining equipment. They're great at repairing equipment, but they also have a talent for wrecking it. At the Pingtung air base is a hangar full of airplane engines, 101 of them at last count. They haven't run a mile, and they are rotten with rust.

1953 February 9, Harold Lavine, “Chiang's Troops: They Are Rarin' to Fight Back”, in Newsweek, volume XLI, number 6, page 33:

Following article was published in Central News Agency's English Bulletin of October 28, 1947:
"President of the Executive Yuan, Chang Chun, returned to the capital at 2:50 this afternoon from Taiwan, after having taken off from Pingtung, Taiwan at 10:40 in the morning.

1972, The Ambassador in China (Stuart) to the Secretary of State (Foreign Relations of the United States 1947), volume 7, numbers 894A.00/11-447, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 468:

The Taiwan Provincial Government has decided to spend US$6.4 million in three years starting this fiscal year to build a tourist recreation park near Fuku Bay in Pingtung county in Southern Taiwan.

1983 January 30, “Aboriginal cultural park”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXIV, number 5, Taipei, page 2:

Villagers and tourists watch as a wooden boat is engulfed by flames during a traditional ceremony in Pingtung county, Taiwan, yesterday to celebrate the end of the eight-day Donggang Wang Ye festival.

2009 October 18, “Fire sail in Taiwan”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-22:

"This is really a genuine Paiwan outfit?" I asked.
"Absolutely," said Jenny. "The gods smile upon anyone who wears this. That's why it feels so uncomfortable. They feel your suffering and your sacrifice."
"It hurts, all right," said Nancy.
"It's painful to look at, too!" I said. Nancy slapped my shoulder.
"It's the real thing," said the girl with the innocent face. "I'm from Pingtung. My grandmother was part Paiwan."

2014, Ed Lin, Ghost Month, Soho Press, →ISBN, page 207:

A family walked through floodwaters in Pingtung County in southern Taiwan on Saturday, as Typhoon Nesat drenched the island.

2017 July 31, Russell Goldman, “On Heels of Typhoon Nesat, a Second Storm Hits Taiwan”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-08-01, Asia Pacific:

屏東 /屏东

county in southern Taiwan; city in southern Taiwan

Under Japanese colonial rule, Pingtung city and its environs had been famous for anti-Japanese activities. After retrocession, the KMT local cadres used local factions to establish their influence and control.

1998, Linda Chao, Ramon H. Myers, The First Chinese Democracy, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 85:

Ou Yang Li-hsing, deputy head of the military-owned National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, was in the southern city of Pingtung on a work trip.

2022 August 6, “Taiwan says China's military drills a 'possible simulated attack'”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2022-08-06:

A city in and the administrative seat of Pingtung County, Taiwan.


Pingtung

Borrowed from Wade–Giles romanization of Chinese 屏東 (Píngdōng) Wade-Giles romanization: Pʻing²-tung¹.


Taitung

From Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 臺東／台東 (Táidōng, literally “eastern Taiwan”) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai²-tung¹, from Taitung Prefecture (臺東直隸州), created ca. 1887.

T'aitung (alternative also)
T'ai-tung (alternative also)
Taidong (alternative Hanyu-Pinyin)

A thorough reorganization and redivisioning of the island was now necessitated. In former days, Formosa comprised one complete prefecture, four districts and three sub-prefectures. Now the island became a province with four prefectures (Taipeh, Taiwan, Tainan, and Taitung), eleven districts, and three sub-prefectures.

1903, James W. Davidson, The Island of Formosa Past and Present, page 244:

In 1987 and 1988, 12 deaths among prisoners were questioned by Taiwan human rights groups. Incidents occurred in prisons and detention centers under the jurisdiction of both civil and military authorities. In one instance, eight prison guards were convicted in July for torturing to death a Taitung detention center prisoner. They received sentences ranging from 10 months to 4 years.

1989 February 10, “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1988”, in United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Government Printing Office, page 785:

In 1995, an earthquake demolished a school in Taitung County, but fortunately this occurred at night when no students were inside.

1998, Robert Storey, Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 4th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 14:

During the 1990s the annual landings of sailfish off Taiwan ranged between 600 and 2000 metric tons, of which approximately 54% came from waters off Taitung (eastern Taiwan).

2004 January 10, Wei-Chuan Chiang, Chi-Lu Sun, Su-Zan Yeh, “Age and growth of sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) in waters off eastern Taiwan”, in Fishery Bulletin, volume 102, number 1, page 251:

The gray sand and rock coastline of Taitung county is almost 144 miles long, but few people live there, thanks to its penchant for typhoons and earthquakes. The Chinese did not establish themselves in the region until the late nineteenth century, and even by the 1970s few Mandarin-speaking Nationalist Chinese had made their way south to Taitung.

2010, Mei-Ling Hopgood, Lucky Girl, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 36:

Taiwan could opt to conserve some of its fighters. It has an air base, Hualien, connected to a shelter tunneled into a mountain that is large enough to house 200 aircraft. Another smaller second facility, Taitung, also has been reported.²⁴
. . .
²⁴The larger of the two shelters is called Jiashan (also spelled Chashan), an aircraft sanctuary tunneled into a mountain next to Hualien air base, while a smaller shelter is located at the Taitung air base (Wendell Minnick, "Taiwan's Hidden Base Will Safeguard Aircraft," Defense News, May 3, 2010).

2016, Air Defense Options for Taiwan, RAND Corporation, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 17:

The quake was centered in Taitung County and registered a preliminary magnitude of 6.8, Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau said.[…]
A magnitude-6.4 earthquake that struck on Saturday night was also centered in Taitung County, the Central Weather Bureau said.

2022 September 18, Austin Ramzy, “Powerful Earthquake Strikes Taiwan”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-09-18, Asia Pacific:

Early in the morning the group left by train for Taitung, the port of exit from where they would take a boat over the choppy ocean.

1958 August 12, Mrs. Peter J. Pankratz, “Visit to Orchid Island”, in The Mennonite, volume 73, number 31, page 485:

The "other cities" of Taiwan have their unique attractions: Hualien and Taitung on the remote east coast, quiet and friendly.

1973 October 8, “Island Beautiful With Much to See and Do”, in Newsweek, page 21A:

Before the widening of the eastern line, trains from Taipei could only travel as far as Hualien. Passengers going on to Taitung, had to either change trains or take a bus, which meant an additional three and a half hours journey.

1982 July 4, “Newly widened railway boost for East Taiwan”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 26, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

As of 11 p.m. local time (11 a.m. Eastern) Thursday, Nepartak was positioned about 225 miles south-southeast of Taipei and was headed northwest at nine miles per hour. The latest forecast information suggests landfall should occur about 5 a.m. local time close to Taitung City, which has a population of just over 100,000.

2016 July 7, Jason Samenow, “‘Exceptionally strong’ typhoon to slam Taiwan early Friday”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-07-08:

The Puyuma express train was carrying more than 300 passengers toward Taitung, a city on Taiwan's southeast coast when the accident took place.

2018 October 21, “Taiwan train accident leaves several dead, many injured”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2018-10-21, NEWS:

“We are trying very hard to keep our rights here,” First Lieutenant Kai-Lin Chiang, 24, told NBC News during a visit to 7th Wing Airforce Base in Taitung, a city on the southeast coast.

2023 July 5, Richard Engel, Charlotte Gardiner, Larissa Gao, “Taiwan doesn’t see conflict as ‘imminent,’ but it’s preparing anyway”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 2023-07-05, WORLD:

A city in and the administrative seat of Taitung County, in eastern Taiwan.


Taitung

de-proper noun

Taitung n (proper noun, genitive Taitungs or (optionally with an article) Taitung)

Taitungs (genitive)
Taitung (genitive with-article)


Miaoli

From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 苗栗 (Miáolì), Wade–Giles romanization: Miao²-li⁴.

Wood-carving, one of Taiwan's leading folk arts, is concentrated on the small village of Sanyi in Miaoli county in north-central Taiwan, where the people have traditionally had the necessary skills and ample access to timber materials.[…]
Woodcarving is one of Taiwan's leading folk arts, and Sanyi village in Miaoli county is the center of production.

1982 June 13, “Wood-carving art thrives in small town”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 23, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

Jack, 31, who lives with his boyfriend of nine years in Miaoli County in the west of Taiwan, has created an embryo in a country in Europe and is currently in the process of having it transferred to the surrogate.

2019 December 22, Rik Glauert, “FEATURE -Taiwan emerges as new market for LGBT+ surrogacy after gay marriage law”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-08, Non-cyclical Consumer Goods:

Under the measures announced last week by the authorities in the central county of Miaoli, thousands of migrant workers, mostly from Vietnam and the Philippines, are prevented from leaving their dormitories except to travel to and from their jobs at high-tech factories.

2021 June 18, Amy Chang Chien, Amy Qin, “In Taiwan, some foreign tech workers are confined indoors to tackle an outbreak.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-06-18, Asia Pacific:

In the middle of last month the Miaoli post office was the scene of a raid. Some thirty bandits broke into the place and attempted to rifle the safe.

1899 November 11, “Formosa”, in The Japan Weekly Mail, volume XXXII, number 20, Yokohama, page 491:

Peking Gazette, the-(continued).[…]
Volume for 1890.[…]
Nov. 7. Typhoon at Tai-pei, Kelung, Tamsui, and Miaoli on 16 August.

1903, William Campbell, Formosa Under the Dutch, Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 599:

About a half hour down the main highway by jeep we come to Toufen where the multi-million dollar China Artificial Fibre Corporation has a large plant. This city is in the deanery of Miaoli, the southern-most part of the Archdiocese of Taipeh. Here Fr. James A. McCormick, M.M. hopes to dedicate the Church of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel on July 16th.

1958, “The Faith and Formosa”, in Scarboro Missions, volume 39, number 11, page 22:

Such a welter of languages! Spellings and pronunciations are anybody's fair game. There are so many right ways in Taiwan that any one them is the wrong way to millions. Each city and town has a Mandarin name, a Taiwanese name, an old Japanese name and, in the mountains, an aborigine name. In the Miaoli area, a Hakka name as well. This makes letter writing or travel a fascinating sport. Even the name of the island is vastly under dispute. You can whip up a bloody battle by calling it Formosa. Protagonists for Taiwan of Free China see red.

1962, Sister Maria del Rey, Safari by Jet, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 183:

A city and the administrative seat in Miaoli County, Taiwan.


Penghu

From the Wade-Giles romanization of Mandarin 澎湖 (Pénghú), Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻêng²-hu².

P'eng-hu (alternative also)
Pênghu (alternative also)

We may remark here, that the Pescadore Group of islands forms one of the six districts which constitute Táiwán fú 臺灣府, the department of Táiwán, or Formosa. The Group is called by the Chinese, in their statistical works, Panghú ting, 澎湖廳, or the district of Panghú, and is under the immediate government of a magistrate, a subordinate of the prefect, or chífú, of Formosa. He resides at Mákung (Macon, as the place is called by foreigners), and has under his command a few hundred soldiers.

[1845 June, Richard Collinson, “Sailing Directions for the Panghú, or Pescadore Archipelago, with notices of the islands.”, in The Chinese Repository, volume XIV, number 6, Canton, →OCLC, page 249:

A total of 829 Vietnamese refugees is now being cared for in Penghu (the Pescadores) with the assistance of the Free China Relief Association (FCRA) and military personnel on the islands between Taiwan and the mainland of China.
. . .
A special bank account has been opened at a post office in Penghu to collect the cash donations for future distribution to the refugees.
The Penghu county government is planning to set up an overseas middle school on the island for young refugees.

1978 December 17, “Home in Penghu for Vietnam refugees”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIX, number 50, Taipei, page 2:

The aircraft took off from Taiwan’s southern city of Kaohsiung, headed for the island of Makong, but crash-landed in Huxi township of Penghu County, the main island of an archipelago also known as the Pescadores.
“It was thunderstorm conditions during the crash,” said Hsi Wen-guang, a spokesman for the Penghu County Government Fire Bureau.

2014 July 23, “TransAsia Airways Taiwan crash leaves dozens dead”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2014-07-24:

The high-speed passenger ship Natchan Rera resumed operation on Wednesday (Aug. 31) to ply the route between Tainan’s Anping Harbor and the outlying island county of Penghu three days a week, according to a press release from Tainan’s Tourism and Travel Bureau.

2022 September 1, George Liao, “High-speed ferry services between Taiwan’s Tainan and Penghu resume operation”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2022-09-02:


土城

/tʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵/

/tʰou̯³⁵ sɪŋ²¹/

/tʰu³¹ saŋ¹¹/

/tʰɔ²⁴⁻²² siã²⁴/

/tʰɔ²⁴⁻²² siã²⁴/

/tʰɔ¹³⁻²² siã¹³/

/tʰɔ²⁴⁻¹¹ siã²⁴/

/tʰɔ²³⁻³³ siã²³/

/tʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵/

/tʰou̯³⁵ sɪŋ²¹/

/tʰu³¹ saŋ¹¹/

/tʰɔ²⁴⁻²² siã²⁴/

/tʰɔ²⁴⁻²² siã²⁴/

/tʰɔ¹³⁻²² siã¹³/

/tʰɔ²⁴⁻¹¹ siã²⁴/

/tʰɔ²³⁻³³ siã²³/

/tʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵/

(～區) Tucheng (a district of New Taipei City, Taiwan)


大內

/tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ neɪ̯⁵¹/

/taːi̯²² nɔːi̯²²/

/tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ neɪ̯⁵¹/

/taːi̯²² nɔːi̯²²/

(～區) Danei (a district of Tainan, Taiwan)


西湖

→ English: West Lake (calque)

/sɐi̯⁵⁵ wuː²¹/

/se⁴⁴⁻²² ɔ²⁴/

/se⁴⁴⁻²² ɔ¹³/

/se⁴⁴⁻³³ ɔ²⁴/

/se⁴⁴⁻³³ ɔ²³/

/sɐi̯⁵⁵ wuː²¹/

/se⁴⁴⁻²² ɔ²⁴/

/se⁴⁴⁻²² ɔ¹³/

/se⁴⁴⁻³³ ɔ²⁴/

/se⁴⁴⁻³³ ɔ²³/

; “West Lake (in Hangzhou)”
; “Xihu District, Hangzhou”

(～鄉) Xihu, Sihu (a rural township in Miaoli County, Taiwan)

(～村) Sihu, Xihu (a rural village in Cimei, Penghu County, Taiwan)


Yunlin

From Mandarin 雲林 /云林 (Yúnlín) Wade–Giles romanization: Yün²-lin².

Yun-lin (alternative also)
Yün-lin (alternative also)

During the year new districts for working camphor have been opened up, viz., Yunlin in the beginning of the year and Kagee at the end.

1894 June, China For the Year 1893 on the Trade of Tainan (Diplomatic and Consular Reports on Trade and Finance), London, page 5:

Lieutenant-Colonel Imahashi writes as follows from Yunlin to one of his friends in Tokyo:-
"On the 15th of July, my force made a thorough search among the mountains...We are now encamped at Yun-lin, and are engaged reconnoitering its neighborhood.

1896 August 15, “Formosan Affairs”, in The Japan Weekly Mail, volume XXVI, number 7, Yokohama, page 176:

The first engagement in which strong opposition was encountered was in the vicinity of Yunlin (Unrin), which was reached on the morning of the 7th by the left column.

1903, James W. Davidson, editor, The Island of Formosa Past and Present, pages 358–359:

On June 3 the governor of Taiwan announced a five-year project to develop the underground water resources in Yunlin, where rice yields were expected to be increased by 60,000 to 80,000 metric tons a year after the plan was completed.

1959, “Taiwan”, in The Americana Annual 1959, Kingsport Press, page 744:

The major shrimp fishing grounds of Taiwan are off the coast of southwestern Taiwan from Yunlin to Kaohsiung, waters west of Penghu (Pescadores Islands), and the northern part of the Taiwan Strait.

1961 February, “Taiwan: Shrimp Industry”, in Commercial Fisheries Review, volume 23, number 2, page 60:

When Lei Chen was seized a young Formosan named Su Tung-chi courageously came forward to sign a petition seeking clemency for the elderly journalist. Su was of a prominent family in the Yunlin area, a graduate of Meiji University in Tokyo, and a very popular leader in his home district.

1965, George H. Kerr, Formosa Betrayed, page 448:

Su Tung-chi, who had persuaded his Yunlin assembly to pass a resolution asking President Chiang to pardon Lei, was sent to prison on sedition charges in 1962, and was later reported either to have been killed or to be undergoing "thought reform".

1970, Douglas Mendel, The Politics of Formosan Nationalism, University of California Press, page 116:

Premier Chiang Ching-kuo (left) visited two cooperative farms and a tidal land reclamation project in Yunlin County in south-west Taiwan March 18. He talks with a farmer in Taiwan dialect through an interpreter.

1973 March 25, “Rice plan to aid farmers”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 11, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

The plane, a twin-engined B-1900, also carried three lieutenant colonels, one major, one captain, one sergeant and one engineer. It crashed in bad weather in Yunlin county on its way from Taipei to Chia-i, the officials said.

1990 August 21, “Top Taiwan Military Officers Among 18 Killed in Air Crash”, in New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-25, page A3:

Yao Chia-wen went to the prosecutor's office in Yunlin County to the north to prepare a legal defense.

2014, Lu Hsiu-lien, Ashley Esarey, My Fight for a New Taiwan, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, page 121:

Pili International Multimedia (8450.TWO), which makes Taiwan's longest-running television show featuring the puppets at its studio in central Taiwan's Yunlin County, says it wants to use NFTs as another source of revenue.

2022 March 31, Ann Wang, “Taiwan puppeteers look to NFTs to keep their art alive”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-04-01, Future of Money:


Changhua

/(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋˈhwɑ/

From Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 彰化 (Zhānghuà), Wade-Giles romanization: Chang¹-hua⁴.

Chang-hua (alternative also)
Changhwa (alternative)
Chang-hwa (alternative)
Jhanghua (alternative)
Zhanghua (alternative Hanyu-Pinyin)

That is why Yeh Hui-chen goes contentedly every day to her family ranch in the Mt. Bank area of Changhua county in central Taiwan to pursue her chosen profession.[...]In the past, the inhabitants eked out a meager living by growing pineapples and plums, which had to be carried out on foot through the rugged mountain area on the border of Changhua and Nantou counties.

1979 February 18, “'Cowgirl' finds contentment, prosperity on the land”, in Free China Weekly, volume XX, number 6, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

In Changhua County's Fenyuan village, I came across some old pineapple growers. The harvest was unexpectedly good this year, but the agricultural cooperative was unable to purchase their surplus.

2000, Shui-Bian Chen, “Learning and Transformation”, in David J. Toman, transl., The Son of Taiwan: The Life of Chen Shui-Bian and His Dreams for Taiwan, Taiwan Publishing Co., Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 26:

The president made the remarks during an inspection tour of the central county of Changhua where he visited a new-style touch fasteners manufacturing firm and an industrial park.

2003 June 18, “President Chen Inspects an Industrial Park in Changhua County”, in Office of the President of the Republic of China (Taiwan):

Taiwan has confirmed new outbreaks of bird flu at two farms in Changhua County, and culled more than 13,000 chickens and ducks, the island's animal and plant health inspection and quarantine bureau said on Saturday.

2018 January 20, “Taiwan reports new bird flu cases”, in yan, editor, Xinhua News Agency:

As we were now going to have rougher travelling than we had had, we despatched a courier to Taiwanfu with our surplus baggage, and letters to inform the Consul of our plans. We went S.S.E. for 13 miles over a fertile plain, cultivated with sugar-cane, tobacco, ground-nut, sweet potatoes, &c., drawing gradually towards the range of hills on our left. At the head of the gorge, due east of the district town of Changhua, we were met by a party of thirty or forty tall, stalwart Pepohuans, armed with knives and match-locks, who were to be our bodyguard through the mountains, to protect us from the savages.

1877 March 12, Herbert J. Allen, Notes of a Journey through Formosa from Tamsui to Taiwanfu (Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society), volume 21, page 261:

SIR: I have the honor to report that the governor of Formosa, Lin Ming-Chuan, has made a contract with Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., for the supply by the latter of rails, rolling stock, and bridge for a narrow-gauge, light-weight railway of 80 miles in length.
The line is to be from Tamsui to Changhua, the future capital of the island. The only stream to bridge is the Taikia River. It will be spanned by a lattice girder bridge in two sections, of a joint length of 1,400 feet.

1888, Mr. Denby to Mr. Bayard (Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States for the Year 1887), number 179, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 224:

The attempts of the governor to raise revenue by increasing the land-tax five-fold resulted in an outbreak of determined opposition and culminated in actual insurrection in the latter part of the summer of 1888. The first rising took place at Pilam, a town on the southeast coast. The Chinese settlers there entered into an alliance with the neighboring savages, and, in spite of the dispatch of some 3,000 troops, appear to have successfully held their own. What the result would have been in the long run it is difficult to estimate, but the anti-land-tax movement having broken out in the district of Changhua, in the very center of the island, the authorities, it is believed, compromised the question at Pilam, so as to have their hands free to cope with the much more formidable state of affairs at Changhua.

1889 October 9, Pelham Warren, Commerce of Takao and Taiwanfoo (Reports from the Consuls of the United States), volume 32, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 201:

We gave our Changhua preacher's wife a gift when her second baby was born at Christmas time just because she is young and badly wants nice things for her infant girl.

1956 June 27, Charlotte A. Dunlap, “Women's Work”, in Southern Presbyterian Journal, volume 15, number 9, page 11:

Ts'ai Ch'ien 蔡乾 was born in 1908 in Changhua near Taichung, Taiwan (Formosa). His father was an accountant in a rice shop and a descendant of the three hundred Fukienese families who went to Taiwan with Koxinga, who led a rebellion there against the Manchus.
At the age of six Ts'ai Ch'ien entered primary school, studied Japanese, and graduated after eight years. He taught at the same school, in Changhua, for one year. In 1924 he came to Shanghai, financed partly by his father and partly by the Chinese Cultural Association of Taiwan. He attended Shanghai University, where Yü Yu-jen was president, in 1924-25.

1957, Edgar Snow, Random Notes on Red China, Harvard University Press, published 1968, →OCLC, page 103:

Oncomelania hupensis formosana collected from the field at Changhua, Taiwan, were used throughout the shedding experiments. They were reared in either 13 cm clay saucers with mud mixture and water (WAGNER & CHI, 1959) or in 20 cm glass bowls.

1983, Lois Wong Chi, Robin Dodson, Fred Ung, “Emergence Pattern of Cercariae from Oncomelania hupensis formosana, Snail Host for Zoophilic Schistosomiasis japonicum”, in The Veliger, volume 25, number 3, page 194:

About three miles (5 km) south of Changhua, along County Route 137 in Huatan, the Taiwan Folk Village (30 Sanfen Rd., Wanya Village Huatan Township, tel (04) 787-0088, $$ closed Mon.) showcases traditional Taiwanese culture-and more.

2004, Phil Macdonald, National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 212:

President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan campaigning in the city of Changhua on Tuesday.

2020 January 8, Steven Lee Myers, Chris Horton, “China Looms Over Taiwan’s Election, Giving a Boost to the Incumbent”, in New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-01-08:

Taiwanese war planes are parked on a highway during an annual exercise to simulate a response to a Chinese attack on Taiwan's airfields in Changhua in southern Taiwan.

2020 July 14, Frida Ghitis, “Can Taiwan survive a second Trump term?”, in Washington Post:

A city and the administrative seat in Changhua County, Taiwan.


Jincheng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 金城 (Jīnchéng).

Kincheng (alternative)
Chincheng (alternative)
Chin-ch'eng (alternative)

/d͡ʒɪnˈt͡ʃɛŋ/

/d͡ʒinˈt͡ʃʌŋ/

Kinmen is the main island, and Jincheng is Kinmen’s main town, offering most of the accommodation and other services. Here you'll also find Jyuguanglou, one of a number of monuments, buildings, and museums glorifying and memorializing the feats of Taiwan’s military against mainland China.

2007, Phil Macdonald, “Strait Islands”, in Taiwan, 2nd edition (Travel), National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 200, column 1:

THE MAN, WHO was calling himself George Chow, took Olivia into Jincheng: a fishing town at the island’s western end.

2011, Neal Stephenson, Reamde (Fiction), London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 511:

At a bohemian restaurant inside the island's biggest town, Jincheng, ukulele instructor Xu Yi Teng, 26, wants to keep the mainland at more than an arm's length.

2016 September 11, Rob Schmitz, “On A Rural Taiwanese Island, Modern China Beckons”, in NPR, archived from the original on 2016-09-11, Asia:

In Kinmen County, the sunset would be visible at 5:29pm at Jiangong Islet (建功嶼) at the mouth of the Wujiang River (浯江溪) in Jincheng Township (金城) and at Cih Lake (慈湖).

2021 December 28, “Orchid Island to catch first sunrise of new year: CWB”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-12-27:

An urban township, the county seat of Kinmen County, Taiwan.


Alishan

Based on evidence of tree-ring patterns in the Japanese cypress tree of Mt. Alishan, Formosa, and from other sources, it is concluded that secular jet-streams are responsible for the climatic variations which influence world wide behavior of glaciers.

1964 June, “Abstracts”, in Bibliography on Snow, Ice and Permafrost, with abstracts with Abstracts, volume XVIII, Hanover, New Hampshire: U.S. Army Materiel Command, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 83, column 2:

In contrast, the convoys of tour buses filled with mainland Chinese tourists have caused many Taiwanese to cringe. Some destinations, like Mount Alishan or the Sun Moon Lake in central Taiwan, are often extremely overcrowded and the media often reports about the rude behavior of Chinese tourists.

2017 February 21, Klaus Bardenhagen (tko), “Taiwan reduces reliance on mainland Chinese tourists”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2017-02-22, Asia:


Zhubei

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 竹北 (Zhúběi).

Chupei (alternative)
Jhubei (alternative)

A migrant worker from the Philippines was arrested in Zhubei early Sunday on suspicion of murdering his girlfriend after she rejected his marriage proposal, according to the Hsinchu County Police Bureau.

2022 August 14, Kang-chun Lu, Matthew Mazzettta, “Migrant worker allegedly kills girlfriend after failed marriage proposal”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 2022-08-14, Society:

A city in and county seat of Hsinchu County, northern Taiwan.


Douliu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 斗六 (Dǒuliù).

Touliu (alternative)
Douliou (alternative)

On March 5, all the government and military institutions in Gaoxiong were occupied, and over 700 Kuomintang troops were held captive. The people’s forces from Taizhong, Douliu, Dounan, and Zhushan converged on Huwei, and regrouped into a combined force to capture Huwei airport. All the Chiang troops there surrendered.

1979 April, “The Turning Point in the Civil War”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVIII, number 4, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 41, column 2:

In Chapter 2, I briefly mentioned a woman I interviewed who paid her Daoist master NT$20,000 for a three-day ceremony. She attended all three days of this ceremony at an apartment temple in the city of Douliu, about 70 kilometers south of Taizhong.

1999, Marc L. Moskowitz, Fetus-Spirits: New Ghosts in Modern Taiwan, →OCLC, page 98:

Supporters of Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson and presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen wave flags during a campaign rally in Douliu, Taiwan, January 11, 2016.

2016 January 12, “In Taiwan's south, calls for independence from China entrenched as poll looms”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-10-08, 8 / 16:

A restaurant in Douliu City, Yunlin County debuted its "Godzilla" ramen featuring crocodile meat as its main ingredient.

2023 June 26, Lyla Liu, “Taiwan restaurant launches 'Godzilla' crocodile ramen”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2023-06-26, Travel & Cuisine:

A city, the county seat of Yunlin County, Taiwan.


Kinmen

:zh:金門機場
Columbia University Press
Kinmen
Kinmen Airport
Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca)

From the Nanking court dialect (later Postal Romanization) romanization of Mandarin 金門 (Jīnmén), from before the modern palatalization of /k/ to /tɕ/, parallel with names for the four townships of Kinmen Island: Kincheng, Kinhu, Kinning, and Kinsha.

Jinmen (alternative Hanyu-Pinyin)
Chinmen (alternative)
Chin-men (alternative)

金門 /金门

county of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

The Kinmen County Government reported that during the past four months of Red bombardment of Kinmen, a total of 105 civilians were killed and 312 wounded.

1959 February, “Chronology”, in Free China Review, volume IX, number 2, Taipei: Henry Kung, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 54, column 2:

Kinmen County, an island chain with a population of 76,000, is catering to Chinese tourists by converting military facilities into tourist traps and building museums with wartime themes.

2007 February 14, Ralph Jennings, “Chinese tourists flock to Taiwan's Kinmen island”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2016-07-10:

Shiyu, or Lion Islet, part of Kinmen County, one of Taiwan’s offshore islands, seen in front of Xiamen, China, on September 8, 2015.

2015, Alan Taylor, “Taiwan's Kinmen Islands, Only a Few Miles From Mainland China”, in The Atlantic:

5. Chi Govt wishes to call attn of US Govt again to fact that Chi Govt is at present maintaining positions on a nr of islands such as Lintin and Lema Islands off Canton, Kinmen Island off Amoy, Matsu Island off Foochow, Tachen Islands off Chekiang Province, etc. These island positions, together with those on the Pescadores, form part of the defense of Taiwan. They are guarded by considerable nr of ground troops with the support of air and naval forces. They have been, however, under constant attacks by Chi Commies, and Chi milit command feels obliged to resist these attacks in self-defense. Chi Govt will appreciate it if US Govt wld indicate its views regarding the matter.

1950 July 7, Dean Acheson, “The Secretary of State to the Embassy in China”, in Foreign Relations of the United States 1950, volume 6, United States Government Printing Office, published 1976, →OCLC, page 371:

The whole Kinmen island complex was divided into 7 operation areas, namely, Tatan, Erhtan, Small Kinmen, and Kinchen-Kinshan, Kinning, Kinhu and Kinsa on Kinmen.

1966, 中華醫學雜誌, volume 13, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 158:

KINMEN
THE little island of Kinmen, three miles off the Chinese coast, must be the world's most heavily defended.
. . .
This week it was learnt that in March China's military leaders plan "Operation Kinmen", a simulated invasion of the island, on the eve of Taiwan's first election for the presidency in which all adult Taiwanese will be able to vote. On Kinmen itself, the Taiwanese are declining to panic.

1995 December 9, “An old-fashioned election”, in The Economist, volume 337, number 7944, pages 34–39:

The PLA had landed several battalions on the beaches and suffered immediate counterattacks by the Nationalist “Kinmen Bears” riding in American M5 A1 tanks for which the Communists had no counter. Fifteen thousand men had died in less than three days. The victory left Kinmen itself a hallowed ground in the minds of the Taiwanese.

2012, Mark Henshaw, Red Cell, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 110:

Arguments over Kinmen's relationship with China swing between "accusing someone of either jeopardizing the most crucial geopolitical relationship of all or committing treason," said Michael Szonyi, director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University and the author of "Cold War Island," a book about Kinmen.
"Virtually every local issue on Kinmen, no matter how small, gets linked to the larger geopolitical context of how to relate to a rising and changing China," Szonyi said. "These are exactly the same questions that Taiwan, that Africa and Latin America, that even the United States are increasingly grappling with."

2020, Gerry Shih, “On China’s front line, emerging Cold War haunts battle-worn Taiwanese islands”, in Washington Post:

The San Jiao Fort cafe on Kinmen Island may well be the best place in Taiwan to watch for the threat of invasion by China.[…]
A handful of people on the Taiwanese islands near China did catch a glimpse of the drills. On Kinmen, Chiu Yi-hsuan, a 39-year-old owner of an independent bookstore, said she felt a shock wave on Thursday. “At first I thought it was thunder, then I realized it wasn’t,” she said.

2022 August 5, Amy Chang Chien, John Liu, Paul Mozur, “As Missiles Fall, Generations Split on Taiwan’s Relationship With China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-05, China-Taiwan Tensions:


Lienchiang

Lienkong (alternative)
Lien-chiang (alternative also)
Lianjiang (alternative Hanyu-Pinyin)
Lienkiang (alternative)

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin for 連江／连江 (Liánjiāng), Wade–Giles romanization: Lien²-chiang¹.

Matsu. JCRR in FY1964 continued to provide local farmers with seeds of superior varieties of dryland crops and vegetables, and selected five young farmers for training in cultural techniques in Taiwan. Technical assistance was given by the agricultural experiment station of the Lienchiang County Government.

1963, General Report of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 115:

The 6-ton fishing boat Kuanghua 16638 was slammed by the communist vessel near the Liuchuan reefs off the coast of Chukuang and drifted toward Nanchu after the collision. Because of the alertness of its owner Li Tsu-shun and the crew, the boat successfully avoided a head-on collision with the communist vessel. The communist atrocity has drawn the keen attention of the commander of the Matsu defense district who has instructed the frontline island defenders to closely watch the movement of communist vessels. In addition, he has instructed the Lienchiang county government to aid the affected fishermen in repairing their damaged fishing boat so that they can resume fishing operations.

1978 January 5 [1977 December 30], “PRC Vessel Collides with ROC Fishing Boat off Matsu”, in Daily Report: Asia & Pacific, volume IV, number 3, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page B 2:

In 1955, this administration was assigned responsibility for Lienchiang 連江縣, Changle, and Loyuan counties. Military government was reinstated in Matsu in 1956, and various outlying islands were brought under the administration of Lienchiang County.

1993, Republic of China Yearbook 1993, Government Information Office, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 126:

A three year project to study bird ecology in the area, coordinated by Wild Bird Federation of Taiwan (formerly Chinese Wild Bird Federation) and financed by Agriculture Improvement Bureau of Lienchiang County began in April 1996 and improved our understanding of the bird fauna.

2000, Liang Chieh-teh, Chang Shou-hua, Fang Woei-horng, “Little-known Oriental Bird”, in Oriental Bird Club, number 32, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18:

The offshore islands of Matsu belong to Lienchiang county and cover a total area of 25,052 ha. They are composed of five large and several smaller islands, which are administratively divided into the four villages of Nangan, Beigan, Jyuguang and Dongyin. According to the national census of 1997 5,360 people live on the Matsu islands with more than 60% of the population living in Nangan.

2013, Meng-Kan Chen, Hsiu-Hsi Chen, “Increased cancer mortality in Taiwanese inter-island migrants”, in Geospatial Health, volume 7, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-08-08, page 252, column 2:

Surplus revenues from the Matsu Liquor Factory account for around 45 percent of the money raised directly by the Lienchiang County government every year. That's why County Commissioner Liu Tseng-ying has called for the distillery to double its revenues and profits.

2017 March 20, 3:32 from the start, in Makers of Matsu’s unique kaoliang liquor look to tap into foreign markets, Formosa Television:

The remote offshore areas set forth in the subparagraph 3 of paragraph 1 include:[…]
3. Beigan Township, Nangan Township, Jyuguang Township and Dongyin Township under the jurisdiction of Lienchiang County, Fuchien Province.

2019 October 17, “Article 10”, in Fee-charging Standards for the Use of State-operated Airport, Navigation Aids and Related Facilities, archived from the original on 2022-03-02, page 6:

On a clear day, up to hundreds of Chinese dredging ships illegally mining for sand can be spotted from the Matsu Islands. The islands, administered as Lienchiang County by Taipei, are located 200 kilometers from the main island of Taiwan, but only 20 kilometers off the coast of China’s Fujian province. Once on the frontlines of the Cold War between the Communists and the Taiwan-based Nationalists, the islands currently face a different type of threat. People in Matsu are concerned about the increasing numbers of illegal dredgers pumping tons of sand from the seabed, often invading waters within 6,000 meters of the islands, which are considered restricted waters by Taiwan’s coast guard.[...]
Wen Lii is director of the Democratic Progressive Party’s newly-launched Lienchiang County Chapter, located on the Matsu Islands, 20 kilometers off the coast of China’s Fujian Province. He is an analyst on foreign policy and regional security issues.

2020, Wen Lii, “From Taiwan to the Philippines, Chinese Illegal Dredging Ships Wreak Environmental Havoc”, in The Diplomat, archived from the original on 2020-08-12:

“There are at least hundreds of [Chinese] squid boats. It used to be just one or two dots of green, but now you see a complete line of green,” said Lai Wen-Chi, chief of the Fisheries and Husbandry Section of the Lienchiang county government, which oversees Matsu. Lai said vessels, which Taiwan officials say convey fishermen mostly from Fujian province, have surged in number in the past two years, with this year being the worst.[...]
Officials have not raised the issue of the green lights, said Wang Chung Ming, deputy head of Lienchiang county, because the impact would be “very limited.”

2021 October 15, Alicia Chen, Lily Kuo, “Green sky at night over Taiwan’s islands heralds a different kind of squid game”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 2021-10-15:

Wang Chung Ming, the head of Lienchiang County, as the Matsu islands are officially called, said he and the legislator from Matsu went to Taipei shortly after the internet broke down to ask for help, and was told they would get priority in any future internet backup plans.[…]
Wang, the head of Lienchiang County, said he had mentioned the cables on a recent visit to China, where he had met an executive from China Mobile.

2023 March 8, Huizhong Wu, Johnson Lai, “Taiwan suspects Chinese ships cut islands’ internet cables”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-11, Business; republished as “Chinese ships cut internet of Taiwan’s outlying islands”, in AP News, 2023 April 18, archived from the original on 2023-03-08:

Two undersea cables connecting Lienchiang County (Matsu) with Taiwan proper were disrupted due to “natural deterioration” and could be repaired by next month, the Ministry of Digital Affairs said today.[…]
So far this year, Taiwan has reported four cases of disruptions in undersea cables, compared with only three both last year and in 2023, Chiueh said.
In 2023, the two undersea cables connecting Lienchiang were cut, disconnecting the Internet.
Authorities said two Chinese vessels caused the disruption, but that there was no evidence that Beijing deliberately tampered with the cables.
Taiwan has since worked to boost its communication resilience for emergencies including a conflict with China, such as a trial program to use low-Earth orbit satellites for remote areas including Lienchiang.

2025 January 22, Sam Garcia, “Matsu undersea cables disrupted by natural causes: ministry”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2025-01-22, Front Page, page 1:

A county of Taiwan, synonymous with the Matsu Islands.

連江 /连江

administrative name for the Matsu Islands; county and river in eastern China


Fuji

After taking some time to dry off while having a seafood lunch at the nearby Fuchi (Fuji) Fishing Harbor 富基漁港, we continued down the coast to the Temple of the Eighteen Lords 十八王公廟.

2008 February 9, Kaminoge, “Welcoming in the Year of the Rat in Tansui and Hokutō Onsen 子年の旅行：淡水、北投温泉”, in A Curmudgeon Abroad (Blog), archived from the original on 2023-03-18:

A Wanli Crab is pictured in the northern coastal fishing port of Fuji Thursday by the Agriculture Department of the New Taipei City Government. Seafood promotional sales will be held during the 4-day Tomb Sweeping holiday from April 2-5. Photo courtesy of the Agriculture Department of New Taipei City Government March 31, 2016

2016 March 31, “Seafood sales”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 2023-10-26, Photos of the Day:

Fuji Fishing Port is in the Fuji Neighborhood of Shimen District in New Taipei City.

2017 November 13, “FUJI FISHING PORT”, in Fisheries and Fishing Port Affairs Management Office, New Taipei City Government, archived from the original on 2022-06-01:

A harbor in Shimen district, New Taipei City, Taiwan.


橋頭

desc

→ English: Chiaotou, Ch'iao-t'ou, Ciaotou, Qiaotou

/t͡ɕʰi̯ɑʊ̯³⁵ tʰoʊ̯³⁵/

/kʰiːu̯²¹ tʰɐu̯²¹/

/kio²⁴⁻²² tʰau²⁴/

/kio²⁴⁻²² tʰau²⁴/

/kio¹³⁻²² tʰau¹³/

/kio²⁴⁻¹¹ tʰau²⁴/

/kiɤ²³⁻³³ tʰau²³/

/t͡ɕʰi̯ɑʊ̯³⁵ tʰoʊ̯³⁵/

/kʰiːu̯²¹ tʰɐu̯²¹/

/kio²⁴⁻²² tʰau²⁴/

/kio²⁴⁻²² tʰau²⁴/

/kio¹³⁻²² tʰau¹³/

/kio²⁴⁻¹¹ tʰau²⁴/

/kiɤ²³⁻³³ tʰau²³/

2016 December 13, 0:15 from the start, in Renovated century-old pharmacy the new tourist attraction in Kaohsiung’s Ciaotou District, Formosa TV:

Kaohsiung’s Ciaotou District has been best known for its fields of cosmos, but the district’s promotion of community-based tourism this year is now letting visitors better know old buildings and the stories behind them.

Gāoxióng Qiáotóu de huāhǎi xīyǐn yóukè zhùzú tèbié de shì jīnnián hái jiéhé shèqū guānguāng ràng rén lái kàn lǎo fángzi tīng lǎo gùshì

高雄橋頭的花海吸引遊客駐足特別的是今年還結合社區觀光讓人來看老房子聽老故事

高雄桥头的花海吸引游客驻足特别的是今年还结合社区观光让人来看老房子听老故事

(～區) Ciaotou (a district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan)


鹽水

→ English: Yanshuei, Yanshui, Yenshui

/jɛn³⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/iæ̃²⁴ fi⁵¹/

/jiːm²¹ sɵy̯³⁵/

/iam²⁴⁻²² t͡sui⁵⁵⁴/

/hi²² sz̩ʷ⁵¹/

/jɛn³⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/iæ̃²⁴ fi⁵¹/

/jiːm²¹ sɵy̯³⁵/

/iam²⁴⁻²² t͡sui⁵⁵⁴/

/hi²² sz̩ʷ⁵¹/

/jɛn³⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

There have also been separate sightings of Formosan ring-necked pheasants perching in Beipu Borough in Jiangjun District and in Fandian Borough in the city’s Yanshuei District.

7 November 2017, Formosan ring-necked pheasants spotted in Tainan 西港金砂里 出現二十多隻台灣環頸雉, Taipei Times, 楊金城, EDWARD JONES, trans.

Cǐwài, Jiāngjūn Qū Běipǔ Lǐ, Yánshuǐ Qū Fàndiàn Lǐ yě yǒu Táiwān Huánjǐngzhì qīxí.

此外，將軍區北埔里、鹽水區飯店里也有台灣環頸雉棲息。

此外，将军区北埔里、盐水区饭店里也有台湾环颈雉栖息。

(～區) Yanshuei, Yanshui (a district of Tainan, Taiwan)


南澳

→ English: Nan'ao, Namoa

/nän³⁵ ˀɑʊ̯⁵¹/

/lam²⁴⁻²² o²¹/

/lam²⁴⁻²² o⁴¹/

/lam¹³⁻²² o²¹/

/lam²⁴⁻¹¹ o¹¹/

/lam²³⁻³³ ɤ²¹/

/lam⁵⁵⁻¹¹ o²¹³/

/nam⁵⁵⁻¹¹ o²¹³/

/nän³⁵ ˀɑʊ̯⁵¹/

/lam²⁴⁻²² o²¹/

/lam²⁴⁻²² o⁴¹/

/lam¹³⁻²² o²¹/

/lam²⁴⁻¹¹ o¹¹/

/lam²³⁻³³ ɤ²¹/

/lam⁵⁵⁻¹¹ o²¹³/

/nam⁵⁵⁻¹¹ o²¹³/

(～鄉) Nan'ao (a mountain indigenous township in Yilan County, Taiwan)


三峽

/sän⁵⁵ ɕi̯ä³⁵/

/sän⁵⁵ ɕi̯ä³⁵/

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 三峡(さんきょう) (Sankyō), from Hokkien 三角湧 /三角涌 (Saⁿ-kak-éng).

(～區, formerly ～鎮) Sanxia (a district of New Taipei City, Taiwan)


臺中

/tʰaɪ̯³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵/

/tʰɔːi̯²¹ t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/

/tʰoi̯¹¹ t͡suŋ²⁴/

/tai²⁴⁻²² tiɔŋ⁴⁴/

/tai²⁴⁻²² tiɔŋ³³/

/tai¹³⁻²² tiɔŋ⁴⁴/

/tai²⁴⁻¹¹ tiɔŋ⁴⁴/

/tai²³⁻³³ tiɔŋ⁴⁴/

/tʰaɪ̯³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵/

/tʰɔːi̯²¹ t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/

/tʰoi̯¹¹ t͡suŋ²⁴/

/tai²⁴⁻²² tiɔŋ⁴⁴/

/tai²⁴⁻²² tiɔŋ³³/

/tai¹³⁻²² tiɔŋ⁴⁴/

/tai²⁴⁻¹¹ tiɔŋ⁴⁴/

/tai²³⁻³³ tiɔŋ⁴⁴/

Officially, with the creation of Japanese 臺(たい)中(ちゅう)縣(けん) (Taichū-ken) in March 1896.

(～縣) (historical) Taichung County (a former county of Taiwan)


基隆

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (基隆):
* → Vietnamese: Cơ Long (基隆)

→ English: Keelung, Jilong

→ Japanese: 基隆 (キールン, Kīrun)

→ Korean: 지룽(基隆) (jirung)

/t͡ɕi⁵⁵ lʊŋ³⁵/

/kei̯⁵⁵ lʊŋ²¹/

/kie⁵⁵ l̃øyŋ⁵³/

/ke⁴⁴⁻³³ laŋ²³/

/kue⁴⁴⁻³³ laŋ²⁴/

/ki³³ liɔŋ²⁴/

/ki⁴⁴⁻³³ liɔŋ²³/

/ki⁴⁴⁻²² liɔŋ²⁴/

/ki⁴⁴⁻³³ liɔŋ²⁴/

/ki⁴⁴⁻²² liɔŋ¹³/

/t͡ɕi⁵⁵ loŋ²¹/

/t͡ɕi⁵⁵ lʊŋ³⁵/

/kei̯⁵⁵ lʊŋ²¹/

/kie⁵⁵ l̃øyŋ⁵³/

/ke⁴⁴⁻³³ laŋ²³/

/kue⁴⁴⁻³³ laŋ²⁴/

/ki³³ liɔŋ²⁴/

/ki⁴⁴⁻³³ liɔŋ²³/

/ki⁴⁴⁻²² liɔŋ²⁴/

/ki⁴⁴⁻³³ liɔŋ²⁴/

/ki⁴⁴⁻²² liɔŋ¹³/

/t͡ɕi⁵⁵ loŋ²¹/

Homophonous replacement for 雞籠／鸡笼 (Ke-lâng, Koe-lâng) from 1875; intended to convey the meaning 基地昌隆 ('prosperous place').


基隆

ja-pos

基隆(キールン) • (Kīrun)


Zhongli

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 中壢／中坜 (Zhōnglì).

zh-l

中壢／中坜 (Zhōnglì)

Chungli (alternative)
Jhongli (alternative)
Jungli (alternative)

In general, we can see Ploughshare as part of a local system, which includes all the communities for whom the basic-level market, and later administrative center, has been the nearby town of Sanxia. This local system is, in turn, part of a regional system, including all of the Chinese-inhabited parts of Taiwan from Taoyan^([sic – meaning Taoyuan]) and Zhongli in the south to Jilong in the north, with its market and administrative center at the twin cities of Megjia^([sic – meaning Mengjia]) and Dadaocheng, which later became Taibei.

1982, Stevan Harrell, “Ploughshare in the Socioeconomic System”, in 犁舌尾 [Ploughshare Village: Culture and Context in Taiwan], University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:

The Zhongyuan Institute of Science and Engineering is located at Zhongli, a town midway between Taibei and Xinzhu.[…]
National Central University, also at Zhongli, has departments in atmospheric physics, chemical engineering, civil engineering, mathematics, and physics.

1984, Tong B. Tang, “Science and Technology in Taiwan”, in Science and Technology in China, London: Longman, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 209:

On Wednesday, Taoyuan Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan (鄭文燦) announced that three clerks working at a Union Bank branch in Taoyuan City's Zhongli District had tested positive for COVID. The three had been listed as contacts of case No. 17,472, a residential service worker.

2022 January 12, Keoni Everington, “3 Union Bank clerks test positive for COVID in northern Taiwan”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2022-01-12, Society:


南投

/nän³⁵ tʰoʊ̯³⁵/

/naːm²¹ tʰɐu̯²¹/

/nˡaŋ⁵³⁻³³ ⁽ᵗ⁻⁾nau⁵³/

/lam¹³⁻²² tɔ¹³/

/lam²⁴⁻²² tɔ²⁴/

/nän³⁵ tʰoʊ̯³⁵/

/naːm²¹ tʰɐu̯²¹/

/nˡaŋ⁵³⁻³³ ⁽ᵗ⁻⁾nau⁵³/

/lam¹³⁻²² tɔ¹³/

/lam²⁴⁻²² tɔ²⁴/

(～縣) Nantou (a county in central Taiwan)


花蓮

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (花蓮 /花莲 (Huālián)):
* → Japanese: 花蓮(かれん) (Karen)
* → Vietnamese: Hoa Liên (花蓮)

→ English: Hualien, Hualian, Hua-lien

/xu̯ä⁵⁵ li̯ɛn³⁵/

/hua⁴⁴⁻³³ liɛn²³/

/hua⁴⁴⁻³³ liɛn²⁴/

/hua⁴⁴⁻³³ liɛn⁴⁴/

/hue⁴⁴⁻³³ liɛn⁴⁴/

/xu̯ä⁵⁵ li̯ɛn³⁵/

/hua⁴⁴⁻³³ liɛn²³/

/hua⁴⁴⁻³³ liɛn²⁴/

/hua⁴⁴⁻³³ liɛn⁴⁴/

/hue⁴⁴⁻³³ liɛn⁴⁴/

Shortened from Japanese 花(か)蓮(れん)港(こう) (Karenkō), from Hokkien 洄瀾／洄澜 (Hôe-liân) during Qing-era settlement in 1851. Formerly named 奇萊／奇莱 (Kî-lâi), referring to the Sakiraya Taiwanese aborigines and their settlement.

zh-m

奇萊／奇莱 (Kî-lâi)

(～縣) Hualien County (a county on the east coast of Taiwan)


花蓮

Hualien (a city and county on the east coast of Taiwan)


Taiping

From Mandarin Chinese 太平 (Tàipíng, literally “Great Peace, Great Pacified Region”).

Tai-ping (alternative)
Tai-p'ing (alternative)
T'ai-p'ing (alternative)
Tai Ping (alternative)

In Taiwan province, a gathering attended by 10,000 people was held at Pingling military camp in Taiping village, Taichung county.

1981 April 5, “Youths in ROC vow to carry out national goals”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 13, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4:

In tracing the history of the cases, it found that a 60-year-old female patient in Taichung's Taiping District Xinguang Borough began experiencing symptoms including fever in mid-August.

2018 September 6, M. Chuang, “登革熱再增7病例 中市6例.高市1例 [CDC Confirms Seven New Dengue Fever Cases]”, in Public Television Service, archived from the original on 2018-09-07:

Various districts, towns, townships, mountains, and islands in China, Taiwan, and Malaysia.


Pratas

From the Portuguese Ilhas das Pratas ("Silver Plate Islands"), in reference to the round shape of the atoll.

Captain King began now to entertain apprehenſions, leſt, in the proſecution of our ſearch for thoſe iſlands, we ſhould get ſo far to the ſouth as to be under the neceſſity of paſſing to leeward of the Pratas ; in which caſe, it might have proved extremely difficult for ſuch bad ſailing veſſels as our to fetch Macao, eſpecially if the wind ſhould continue to blow (as it now did) from the north-north-eaſt and north.
. . .
On the approach of day-light, we had ſight of the iſland of Prata ; and, between the hours of ſix and ſeven, we ſtood towards the ſhoal, but finding ourſelves unable to weather it, we bore away, and ran to leeward.
. . .
The iſland of Prata was now three or four leagues diſtant, bearing north three quarters eaſt. Near the southern extremity of the iſland, and on the ſouth-weſtern ſide of the reef, we imagined that we ſaw, from the maſt-head, ſeveral openings in the reef, which ſeemed to promiſe ſecure anchorage.
The extent of the Prata ſhoal is conſiderable ; for it is about ſix leagues from north to ſouth, and extends three or four leagues to the eaſt of the iſland : its limits to the weſtward we had not an opportunity of aſcertaining.

1784, James Cook, James King, Cook's Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, volume IV, London: John Stockdale, pages 211–213:

Pratas Island was found to bear from Pedro Branco S. 42¾°E. distant 130½ miles, and from the North end of the Great Lema S. 59°E. distant 157 miles.

1817, James Horsburgh, India Sailing Directory, Chart Office, East India House, page 257:

In the 'Zoologist' for 1860 (Zool. 7236) I contributed a list of animals observed on Pratas Island, situated at one side of the Pratas Reef, a coral formation in the China Sea. Since then I have come across a short account of my visit to the Pratas Shoal, which possibly may interest some of your readers, as conveying some notion of what these isolated coral islands are like.

1862, Arthur Adams, “A Visit to Pratas Island”, in The Zoologist, volume 20, pages 8183-8184:

CHINA SEA.—Proceeding from north to south, we first meet the Pratas Shoal (lat. 20° N.), which, according to Horsburgh (vol. ii. p. 335), is composed of coral, is of a circular form, and has a low islet on it. The reef is on a level with the water's edge, and when the sea runs high, there are breakers nearly all round; 'the water within seems pretty deep in some places; although steep in the most parts outside, there appear to be several parts where a ship might find anchorage outside the breaks;' coloured blue.

1874, Charles Darwin, The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, 2nd edition, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 238:

Later in the same typhoon season the members of a similar fowling expedition had their vessel smashed up during a cyclone, and being marooned upon the Pratas, were, I think, upon news of their fate becoming known, brought off, the island by an Osaka Shosen Kaisha steamer, officially sent to effect their rescue.

1909 August 21, “THE TRUTH ABOUT PRATAS ISLAND”, in The Japan Weekly Mail, volume LII, number 8, Yokohama, page 241:

It is emphatically with Japan that the most serious trouble has taken place. Early in the year it was discovered by the Chinese authorities that the Pratas Islands had been occupied by Japanese and that their supplies of nitrates were being carried off to Japan without so much as a "By your leave.". . .The question of the jurisdiction over Chientao has been before the two Governments for the last two and a half years and it was causing a good deal of friction between them, so Japan gave way in the matter of Pratas Island, more or less, and this was after all a most insignificant affair, with the hope of getting her own way about Chientao.

1910, The Provinces of China, Shanghai, page 172:

On July 12, 1862, the Phantom, under the command of Captain Henry Jackson Sargent, Jr., was wrecked on Pratas shoal in thick, heavy weather.

1925 December, “Old Ships and Ship-building Days of Medford”, in Medford Historical Register, volume XXVIII, number 4, page 61:

DESCRIPTION OF THE GUANO ISLANDS
PRATAS ISLAND OR TUNG-SHA-TAO
LATITUDE 20° 42' N., LONGITUDE 116° 43' E.
Situated on the western side of Pratas Reef, a large circular reef with a circumference of about 64 kilometers, a width of up to 3 kilometers, and a large interior lagoon. According to the "Sailing directions for the western shores of the China Sea" (United States Hydrographic Office, 1937a) the island is horseshoe shaped, about 1.6 kilometers long, is sandy and bears trees.

1950, George Evelyn Hutchinson, “Guano Islands in the South China Sea, in the Seas of the East Indian Archipelago, and in the Adjacent Parts of the Indian Ocean”, in The Biogeochemistry of Vertebrate Excretion (Survey of Existing Knowledge of Biochemistry), volume 96, New York: American Museum of Natural History, page 278:

They asked 72-year-old An Fu-lee, an experienced sailor, to set sail for Pratas Island as a stopping point en route to Taiwan.

1973 March 4, “Nine Chinese refugees”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 8, Taipei, page 2:

Since 1949, Taiwan has remained under Nationalist (Kuomintang) control along with the off-shore islands of Chin-men (Kinmen) and Ma-tsu (Lien-chiang County) in Fujian Province. Chin-men and Lien-chiang County are to end their period of direct military rule and to elect their first country magistrates in 1993. In addition, the Nationalists maintain garrisons and weather stations in the South China Sea on T'ai-p'ing Island in the Nansha or Spratly Islands and in the Tungsha or Pratas Islands (see Figure 6.1).

1992, Richard Louis Edmonds, edited by Graham P. Chapman and Kathleen M. Baker, The Changing Geography of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau (The Changing Geography of Asia), Routledge, →ISBN, page 160:

Taiwan says Chinese warplanes entered its airspace in the South China Sea on Wednesday and Thursday during large-scale war games that it called a “serious provocation to the self-governing island and a grave threat to regional peace and stability.”
Taiwan’s foreign ministry said Thursday that its military was fully aware of China’s actions and “responds effectively,” without giving details. The war games reportedly took place in airspace between Taiwan’s main island and the Taiwan-controlled Pratas island group to the south.

2020 September 14, “South China Sea Watch: More talks and more tensions”, in Washington Post:

China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, has conducted almost daily flights over the waters between the southern part of Taiwan and the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands in the South China Sea in recent months.
. . .
A map provided by Taiwan’s defence ministry showed that the Chinese aircraft, including a Y-8 anti-submarine aircraft, flew over the same waters where the most recent Chinese missions have been taking place near the Pratas Islands, though still well away from mainland Taiwan.

2021 January 23, Ben Blanchard, “Taiwan reports large incursion by Chinese air force”, in Reuters:

An island and an atoll in the South China Sea administered as part of Cijin (Qijin), Kaohsiung, Republic of China (Taiwan).


綠島

→ English: Green Island

/ly⁵¹ tɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/liɪk̚⁴⁻³² tɤ⁴¹/

/ly⁵¹ tɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/liɪk̚⁴⁻³² tɤ⁴¹/

(～鄉) Lyudao (a township in Taitung County, Taiwan, administering the island)


Green Island

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綠島／绿岛 (Lǜdǎo)

Green Island, a small islet of 1,000 people off Taitung on the southeastern coast, is popularly regarded as a major center for political punishment and "thought reform."[...]According to one of the students, "Gangsters are imprisoned on another island south of Green Island because Chiang is afraid they are a source of support for anti-KMT politicians, as he himself had relied on Shanghai gangs in his youth.[...]Once I was guided to a "political reform" camp near Taitung, but not allowed to speak to any prisoners. "It would be useless for you to take the rough trip over to Green Island," said the guide, "because they're even stricter with foreign visitors there than on Formosa. Moreover, important political offenders are kept in Taipei."

1970, Douglas Mendel, The Politics of Formosan Nationalism, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 120–121:

Many deer farms also are located on Green Island in the Pacific, off Taiwan's east coast.

1975 December 7, “Deer help to prosperity”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 48, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

The prison is now the Green Island Human Rights Memorial Park.

2004, Phil Macdonald, National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 153:

Q. Your novel is named after Green Island, where the Kuomintang held political prisoners including native Taiwanese, similar to South Africa’s Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was held. Why that title?

2016 January 22, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Q. and A.: Shawna Yang Ryan on the 1947 Incident That Shaped Taiwan’s Identity”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-01-26, Sinosphere:

He lends his works to exhibitions but does not sell them -- currently some are on display in a former dissidents' prison on remote outlying Green Island, which has been converted to a human rights centre.

2017 July 14, Amber Wang, “Pain runs deep for Taiwan artists 30 years after 'White Terror'”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2017-07-14:

SEC. 7075. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to create, procure, or display any map that depicts Taiwan, Kinmen, Matsu, Penghu, Wuciou, Green Island, or Orchid Island as part of the territory of the People’s Republic of China.

2021 July 6, Barbara Lee, “H.R.4373 - Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2022”, in Congress.gov, archived from the original on 2021-07-30:

A small volcanic island of the Republic of China (Taiwan), located southeast of the main island, primarily noted for its prison colonies.


Gushan

From the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese 鼓山 (Gǔshān, "Drum Mountain").

Kushan (alternative)
Ku-shan (alternative)

Groups supporting the recall of Kaohsiung City Mayor Han Kuo-yu also organized a vigil in Kaohsiung. They marched through Gushan District and released sky lanterns to mourn victims and pray for Hong Kong.

2020 June 5, C. Chuang, “Vigils Marking June 4 Held in Taipei, Kaohsiung [悼念六四31週年 北燭光晚會.高放天燈]”, in Public Television Service, archived from the original on 2022-09-24:

罷韓團體昨天也在高雄鼓山區舉行"六四撐香港"遊行，隊伍沿著鼓山區臨海二路，走到鐵道園區，並且施放天燈，一同追悼六四，為香港祈福，為高雄加油。

The accident occurred at around 12 p.m. on the intersection of Gushan 2nd Road and Beidou Street in Kaohsiung's Gushan District.

2023 September 12, Tsai Meng-yu, James Lo, “Woman on scooter runs red light, crashes into Kaohsiung light rail tram”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 2023-09-13, Society:


池上

/ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩³⁵ ʂɑŋ⁵¹/

/t͡sʰiː²¹ sœːŋ²²/

/t͡sʰɨ¹¹ soŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡ʃʰi⁵⁵ ʃoŋ³³/

/ti²⁴⁻²² siɔŋ²²/

/ti²⁴⁻¹¹ siɔŋ³³/

/ti²³⁻³³ siɔŋ³³/

/ti²⁴⁻²² siɔŋ⁴¹/

/ti¹³⁻²² siaŋ²²/

/ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩³⁵ ʂɑŋ⁵¹/

/t͡sʰiː²¹ sœːŋ²²/

/t͡sʰɨ¹¹ soŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡ʃʰi⁵⁵ ʃoŋ³³/

/ti²⁴⁻²² siɔŋ²²/

/ti²⁴⁻¹¹ siɔŋ³³/

/ti²³⁻³³ siɔŋ³³/

/ti²⁴⁻²² siɔŋ⁴¹/

/ti¹³⁻²² siaŋ²²/

(～鄉) Chishang (a rural township in Taitung County, Taiwan)


玉井

/y⁵¹ t͡ɕiŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/jʊk̚² t͡sɛːŋ³⁵/

/jʊk̚² t͡sɪŋ³⁵/

/ŋi̯uk̚⁵ t͡si̯aŋ³¹/

/ɡiɔk̚⁴⁻³² t͡sẽ⁵³/

/ɡiɔk̚⁴⁻³² t͡sĩ⁵³/

/ɡiɔk̚²⁴⁻² t͡sẽ⁵⁵⁴/

/ɡiɔk̚²⁴⁻² t͡sĩ⁵⁵⁴/

/ɡiɔk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ t͡sɛ̃⁵³/

/ɡiɔk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ t͡sĩ⁵³/

/ɡiɔk̚⁴⁻³² t͡sẽ⁵³/

/ɡiɔk̚⁴⁻³² t͡sĩ⁵³/

/ɡiɔk̚⁴⁻³² t͡sẽ⁴¹/

/ɡiɔk̚⁴⁻³² t͡sĩ⁴¹/

/y⁵¹ t͡ɕiŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/jʊk̚² t͡sɛːŋ³⁵/

/jʊk̚² t͡sɪŋ³⁵/

/ŋi̯uk̚⁵ t͡si̯aŋ³¹/

/ɡiɔk̚⁴⁻³² t͡sẽ⁵³/

/ɡiɔk̚⁴⁻³² t͡sĩ⁵³/

/ɡiɔk̚²⁴⁻² t͡sẽ⁵⁵⁴/

/ɡiɔk̚²⁴⁻² t͡sĩ⁵⁵⁴/

/ɡiɔk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ t͡sɛ̃⁵³/

/ɡiɔk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ t͡sĩ⁵³/

/ɡiɔk̚⁴⁻³² t͡sẽ⁵³/

/ɡiɔk̚⁴⁻³² t͡sĩ⁵³/

/ɡiɔk̚⁴⁻³² t͡sẽ⁴¹/

/ɡiɔk̚⁴⁻³² t͡sĩ⁴¹/

From Japanese 玉井(たまい) (Tamai), a phono-semantic matching of the original name of 噍吧哖 (Ta-pa-nî).

(～區) Yujing (a district of Tainan, Taiwan)


北山

→ English: Beishan

/peɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂän⁵⁵/

/peɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂän⁵⁵/

(～村) Beishan (a village in Guoxing, Nantou County, Taiwan)


大倉

/tä⁵¹ t͡sʰɑŋ⁵⁵/

/tä⁵¹ t͡sʰɑŋ⁵⁵/

(～村) Dacang (a rural village in Baisha, Penghu County, Taiwan)


山上

/ʂän⁵⁵ ʂɑŋ⁵¹/

/saːn⁵⁵ sœːŋ²²/

/san²⁴⁻¹¹ soŋ⁵⁵/

/san⁴⁴⁻²² siɔŋ²²/

/san⁴⁴⁻²² siɔŋ²²/

/san⁴⁴⁻³³ siɔŋ³³/

/san⁴⁴⁻³³ siɔŋ³³/

/ʂän⁵⁵ ʂɑŋ⁵¹/

/saːn⁵⁵ sœːŋ²²/

/san²⁴⁻¹¹ soŋ⁵⁵/

/san⁴⁴⁻²² siɔŋ²²/

/san⁴⁴⁻²² siɔŋ²²/

/san⁴⁴⁻³³ siɔŋ³³/

/san⁴⁴⁻³³ siɔŋ³³/

(～區) Shanshang (a district of Tainan, Taiwan)


宜蘭

→ English: Yilan, Ilan

/ŋie⁵³⁻³³ l̃aŋ⁵³/

/ki¹³⁻¹¹ laŋ¹³/

/ki²⁴⁻²¹ laŋ²⁴/

/ɡi²⁴⁻²² lan²⁴/

/ɡi²⁴⁻²² lan²⁴/

/ɡi¹³⁻²² lan¹³/

/ɡi²⁴⁻¹¹ lan²⁴/

/ɡi²³⁻³³ lan²³/

/ŋie⁵³⁻³³ l̃aŋ⁵³/

/ki¹³⁻¹¹ laŋ¹³/

/ki²⁴⁻²¹ laŋ²⁴/

/ɡi²⁴⁻²² lan²⁴/

/ɡi²⁴⁻²² lan²⁴/

/ɡi¹³⁻²² lan¹³/

/ɡi²⁴⁻¹¹ lan²⁴/

/ɡi²³⁻³³ lan²³/

With 1875 renaming from Komalan Subprefecture (噶瑪蘭廳), from Hokkien 噶瑪蘭 (Kat-má-lán), 蛤仔蘭 (Kap-á-lân) or 蛤仔難 (Kap-á-lān), names given to sites of the Kavalan tribe of Taiwanese aborigines.

(～市) Yilan (a city in Yilan County, Taiwan)


屏東

desc

→ English: Pingtung, P'ing-tung, Ping Tung, Pingdong

/pʰiŋ³⁵ tʊŋ⁵⁵/

/pʰɪŋ²¹ tʊŋ⁵⁵/

/piŋ⁵³⁻⁵⁵ ⁽ᵗ⁻⁾nøyŋ⁵⁵/

/pin²⁴⁻²² tɔŋ⁴⁴/

/pin²⁴⁻²² tɔŋ³³/

/pin¹³⁻²² tɔŋ⁴⁴/

/pin²⁴⁻¹¹ tɔŋ⁴⁴/

/pin²³⁻³³ tɔŋ⁴⁴/

/pʰiŋ³⁵ tʊŋ⁵⁵/

/pʰɪŋ²¹ tʊŋ⁵⁵/

/piŋ⁵³⁻⁵⁵ ⁽ᵗ⁻⁾nøyŋ⁵⁵/

/pin²⁴⁻²² tɔŋ⁴⁴/

/pin²⁴⁻²² tɔŋ³³/

/pin¹³⁻²² tɔŋ⁴⁴/

/pin²⁴⁻¹¹ tɔŋ⁴⁴/

/pin²³⁻³³ tɔŋ⁴⁴/

From Japanese 屏東(へいとう) (Heitō) in 1920, referring to its relative position to 半屏山 (Poàⁿ-pêng-soaⁿ, “Mount Banping”).

(～市) Pingtung (a city in Pingtung County, Taiwan)


公館

/kʊŋ⁵⁵ ku̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/kʊŋ⁵⁵ kuːn³⁵/

/kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kuan⁵³/

/kɔŋ³³ kuan⁵⁵⁴/

/kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kuan⁵³/

/kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kuan⁵³/

/kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kuan⁴¹/

/kʊŋ⁵⁵ ku̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/kʊŋ⁵⁵ kuːn³⁵/

/kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kuan⁵³/

/kɔŋ³³ kuan⁵⁵⁴/

/kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kuan⁵³/

/kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kuan⁵³/

/kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kuan⁴¹/

(～鄉) Gongguan, Kungkuan (a rural township in Miaoli County, Taiwan)


彰化

/ʈ͡ʂɑŋ⁵⁵ xu̯ä⁵¹/

/t͡sœːŋ⁵⁵ faː³³/

/t͡soŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ fa⁵⁵/

/t͡suoŋ⁵⁵⁻⁵³ ⁽ʰ⁻⁾ŋuɑ²¹³/

/t͡siaŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hua¹¹/

/t͡siaŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hua²¹/

/t͡siaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² hua²¹/

/t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hua²¹/

/t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hua¹¹/

/t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² hua²¹/

/ʈ͡ʂɑŋ⁵⁵ xu̯ä⁵¹/

/t͡sœːŋ⁵⁵ faː³³/

/t͡soŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ fa⁵⁵/

/t͡suoŋ⁵⁵⁻⁵³ ⁽ʰ⁻⁾ŋuɑ²¹³/

/t͡siaŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hua¹¹/

/t͡siaŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hua²¹/

/t͡siaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² hua²¹/

/t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hua²¹/

/t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hua¹¹/

/t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² hua²¹/

(～市) Changhua (a city in Changhua County, Taiwan)


光復

/ku̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ fu⁵¹/

/kʷɔːŋ⁵⁵ fʊk̚²/

/koŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ fuk̚⁵/

/kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² hɔk̚⁴/

/kɔŋ³³ hɔk̚²⁴/

/kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² hɔk̚¹²¹/

/kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hɔk̚⁴/

/kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hɔk̚⁴/

/kuɑ̃⁵⁵ voʔ²¹/

/ku̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ fu⁵¹/

/kʷɔːŋ⁵⁵ fʊk̚²/

/koŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ fuk̚⁵/

/kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² hɔk̚⁴/

/kɔŋ³³ hɔk̚²⁴/

/kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² hɔk̚¹²¹/

/kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hɔk̚⁴/

/kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hɔk̚⁴/

/kuɑ̃⁵⁵ voʔ²¹/

(～鄉) Guangfu (a rural township in Hualien County, Taiwan)


吉祥

/t͡ɕi³⁵ ɕi̯ɑŋ³⁵/

/kɐt̚⁵ t͡sʰœːŋ²¹/

/t͡ɕiəʔ²⁻⁵⁴ ɕiɒ̃¹¹/

/kɛʔ²¹⁻⁴⁵ ɬyɒŋ¹³/

/kɛʔ²⁻⁴ ɬyøŋ²⁴/

/kiɛt̚³²⁻⁴ siɔŋ²⁴/

/kiɛt̚³²⁻⁴ siɔŋ²³/

/kiɛt̚⁵⁻²⁴ siɔŋ²⁴/

/kiɛt̚³²⁻⁵ siaŋ¹³/

/t͡ɕiɪʔ³³ ʑiã⁴⁴/

/t͡ɕi³⁵ ɕi̯ɑŋ³⁵/

/kɐt̚⁵ t͡sʰœːŋ²¹/

/t͡ɕiəʔ²⁻⁵⁴ ɕiɒ̃¹¹/

/kɛʔ²¹⁻⁴⁵ ɬyɒŋ¹³/

/kɛʔ²⁻⁴ ɬyøŋ²⁴/

/kiɛt̚³²⁻⁴ siɔŋ²⁴/

/kiɛt̚³²⁻⁴ siɔŋ²³/

/kiɛt̚⁵⁻²⁴ siɔŋ²⁴/

/kiɛt̚³²⁻⁵ siaŋ¹³/

/t͡ɕiɪʔ³³ ʑiã⁴⁴/

(～里) an urban village in Songshan district, Taipei, Taiwan


板橋

→ English: Banciao, Banqiao, Pan-ch'iao, Panchiao

/pän²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑʊ̯³⁵/

/paːn³⁵ kʰiːu̯²¹/

/pi̯oŋ²⁴ kʰi̯eu̯¹¹/

/paŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kio²⁴/

/paŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kio¹³/

/paŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kio²⁴/

/paŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kiɤ²³/

/pän²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑʊ̯³⁵/

/paːn³⁵ kʰiːu̯²¹/

/pi̯oŋ²⁴ kʰi̯eu̯¹¹/

/paŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kio²⁴/

/paŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kio¹³/

/paŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kio²⁴/

/paŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kiɤ²³/

From Japanese 板橋(いたはし) (Itahashi), from the former name 枋橋／枋桥. The Min Nan and Hakka pronunciations are based on the former name.

(～區, formerly ～鎮, ～市) Banqiao, Banciao, Panchiao (a district of New Taipei City, Taiwan)


大林

/taːi̯²² lɐm²¹/

/tua²²⁻²¹ nã²⁴/

/tua⁴¹⁻²² nã²⁴/

/tua²²⁻²¹ nã¹³/

/tua³³⁻¹¹ nã²⁴/

/tua³³⁻²¹ nã²³/

/taːi̯²² lɐm²¹/

/tua²²⁻²¹ nã²⁴/

/tua⁴¹⁻²² nã²⁴/

/tua²²⁻²¹ nã¹³/

/tua³³⁻¹¹ nã²⁴/

/tua³³⁻²¹ nã²³/

(～鎮) Dalin (an urban township in Chiayi County, Taiwan)


萬里

/wän⁵¹ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/ban²²⁻²¹ li⁵³/

/ban⁴¹⁻²² li⁵⁵⁴/

/ban²²⁻²¹ li⁵³/

/ban³³⁻¹¹ li⁵³/

/ban³³⁻²¹ li⁴¹/

/wän⁵¹ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/ban²²⁻²¹ li⁵³/

/ban⁴¹⁻²² li⁵⁵⁴/

/ban²²⁻²¹ li⁵³/

/ban³³⁻¹¹ li⁵³/

/ban³³⁻²¹ li⁴¹/

From the idiomatic sense of 萬／万 (wàn) as any uncountable or unimaginably large number.

(～區) Wanli (a district of New Taipei City, Taiwan)

(～里) an urban village in Wanli district, New Taipei City, Taiwan


泰安

→ English: T'ai-an, Tai'an

/tʰaɪ̯⁵¹ ˀän⁵⁵/

/tʰaːi̯³³ ɔːn⁵⁵/

/tʰai²¹⁻⁵³ an⁴⁴/

/tʰai⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ an³³/

/tʰai²¹⁻⁵³ an⁴⁴/

/tʰai¹¹⁻⁵³ an⁴⁴/

/tʰai²¹⁻⁴¹ an⁴⁴/

/tʰaɪ̯⁵¹ ˀän⁵⁵/

/tʰaːi̯³³ ɔːn⁵⁵/

/tʰai²¹⁻⁵³ an⁴⁴/

/tʰai⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ an³³/

/tʰai²¹⁻⁵³ an⁴⁴/

/tʰai¹¹⁻⁵³ an⁴⁴/

/tʰai²¹⁻⁴¹ an⁴⁴/

(～鄉) Tai'an, Tai-an, Taian (a mountain indigenous township in Miaoli County, Taiwan)


油車

/joʊ̯³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɤ⁵⁵/

/iu²³⁻³³ t͡sʰia⁴⁴/

/iu²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sʰia⁴⁴/

/iu¹³⁻²² t͡sʰia⁴⁴/

/iu²⁴⁻²² t͡sʰia⁴⁴/

/joʊ̯³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɤ⁵⁵/

/iu²³⁻³³ t͡sʰia⁴⁴/

/iu²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sʰia⁴⁴/

/iu¹³⁻²² t͡sʰia⁴⁴/

/iu²⁴⁻²² t͡sʰia⁴⁴/

(～里) an urban village in Tamsui district, New Taipei City, Taiwan


萬福

/ʋan⁵³⁻⁵⁵ fʊk̚¹/

/ban²²⁻²¹ hɔk̚³²/

/ban⁴¹⁻²² hɔk̚⁵/

/ban²²⁻²¹ hɔk̚³²/

/ban³³⁻¹¹ hɔk̚³²/

/ban³³⁻²¹ hɔk̚³²/

/ʋan⁵³⁻⁵⁵ fʊk̚¹/

/ban²²⁻²¹ hɔk̚³²/

/ban⁴¹⁻²² hɔk̚⁵/

/ban²²⁻²¹ hɔk̚³²/

/ban³³⁻¹¹ hɔk̚³²/

/ban³³⁻²¹ hɔk̚³²/

(～里) an urban village in Nangang district, Taipei, Taiwan


石岡

/ʂʐ̩³⁵ kɑŋ⁵⁵/

/ʂʐ̩³⁵ kɑŋ⁵⁵/

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 石岡 (Ishioka).
; "Shigang district, Taichung, Taiwan"

obor

(～區) Shigang (a district of Taichung, Taiwan)


玉田

/y⁵¹ tʰi̯ɛn³⁵/

/jʊk̚² tʰiːn²¹/

/y⁵¹ tʰi̯ɛn³⁵/

/jʊk̚² tʰiːn²¹/

(～村) Yutian (a rural village in Jiaoxi, Yilan County, Taiwan)


Beishan

Translingual: beishanensis, Beishanlong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 北山 (Běishān).

Peishan (alternative)
Pei-shan (alternative)

A village in Guoxing, Nantou County, Taiwan.


銅鑼

/tʰʊŋ³⁵ lu̯ɔ³⁵/

/tʰʊŋ²¹ lɔː²¹/

/tʰuŋ¹¹ lo¹¹/

/taŋ²⁴⁻²² lo²⁴/

/taŋ²⁴⁻²² lo²⁴/

/taŋ¹³⁻²² lo¹³/

/taŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ lo²⁴/

/taŋ²³⁻³³ lɤ²³/

/tʰʊŋ³⁵ lu̯ɔ³⁵/

/tʰʊŋ²¹ lɔː²¹/

/tʰuŋ¹¹ lo¹¹/

/taŋ²⁴⁻²² lo²⁴/

/taŋ²⁴⁻²² lo²⁴/

/taŋ¹³⁻²² lo¹³/

/taŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ lo²⁴/

/taŋ²³⁻³³ lɤ²³/

(～鄉) Tongluo (a rural township in Miaoli County, Taiwan)


自強

/t͡sz̩⁵¹ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ³⁵/

/t͡siː²² kʰœːŋ²¹/

/t͡sʰɨ⁵⁵ kʰi̯oŋ¹¹/

/t͡sy²⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ⁽ᵏ⁻⁾yoŋ⁵³/

/t͡sɯ⁴¹⁻²² kiɔŋ²⁴/

/t͡su²²⁻²¹ kiɔŋ²⁴/

/t͡su²²⁻²¹ kiaŋ¹³/

/t͡sz̩⁵¹ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ³⁵/

/t͡siː²² kʰœːŋ²¹/

/t͡sʰɨ⁵⁵ kʰi̯oŋ¹¹/

/t͡sy²⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ⁽ᵏ⁻⁾yoŋ⁵³/

/t͡sɯ⁴¹⁻²² kiɔŋ²⁴/

/t͡su²²⁻²¹ kiɔŋ²⁴/

/t͡su²²⁻²¹ kiaŋ¹³/


湖西

→ English: Huhsi, Husi, Huxi

/wuː²¹ sɐi̯⁵⁵/

/ɔ²⁴⁻²² sai⁴⁴/

/ɔ²⁴⁻²² sai³³/

/ɔ¹³⁻²² sai⁴⁴/

/ɔ²⁴⁻¹¹ sai⁴⁴/

/ɔ²³⁻³³ sai⁴⁴/

/wuː²¹ sɐi̯⁵⁵/

/ɔ²⁴⁻²² sai⁴⁴/

/ɔ²⁴⁻²² sai³³/

/ɔ¹³⁻²² sai⁴⁴/

/ɔ²⁴⁻¹¹ sai⁴⁴/

/ɔ²³⁻³³ sai⁴⁴/

(～鄉) Huxi, Husi, Huhsi (a rural township in Penghu County, Taiwan)

(～村) Huxi (a rural village in Huxi, Penghu County, Taiwan)


瑞穗

/ʐu̯eɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ su̯eɪ̯⁵¹/

/sɵy̯²² sɵy̯²²/

/ʐu̯eɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ su̯eɪ̯⁵¹/

/sɵy̯²² sɵy̯²²/

(～鄉) Ruisui (a rural township in Hualien County, Taiwan)


蕃薯

/fän⁵⁵ ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/fän⁵⁵ ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

For pronunciation and definitions of 蕃薯 – see 番薯 (“sweet potato; the hell; etc.”).
(This term is a variant form of 番薯).

zh-see

(～里) Fanshu (an urban village in Tamsui district, New Taipei City, Taiwan)


中央山脈

desc

English: Central Mountain Range, Zhongshan Shanmai, Chungyang Shanmai, Chungyang Shanmo

ㄓㄨㄥ ㄧㄤ ㄕㄢ ㄇㄞˋ

ㄓㄨㄥ ㄧㄤ ㄕㄢ ㄇㄛˋ

Чжунъян Шаньмай

/ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ jɑŋ⁵⁵ ʂän⁵⁵ maɪ̯⁵¹/

Чжунъян Шаньмо

/ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ jɑŋ⁵⁵ ʂän⁵⁵ mu̯ɔ⁵¹/

/t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ jœːŋ⁵⁵ saːn⁵⁵ mɐk̚²/

/t͡suŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ i̯oŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ san²⁴ mak̚²/

/t͡suŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ (j)i̯oŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ san²⁴ mak̚²/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² iɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² suã⁴⁴⁻²² mẽʔ⁴/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ iɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ suã⁴⁴⁻³³ mẽʔ⁴/

/tiɔŋ³³ iɔŋ³³ suã³³ beʔ²⁴/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² iaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² suã⁴⁴⁻²² mɛ̃ʔ¹²¹/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ iaŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ suã⁴⁴⁻³³ mẽʔ⁴/

/ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ jɑŋ⁵⁵ ʂän⁵⁵ maɪ̯⁵¹/

/ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ jɑŋ⁵⁵ ʂän⁵⁵ mu̯ɔ⁵¹/

/t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ jœːŋ⁵⁵ saːn⁵⁵ mɐk̚²/

/t͡suŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ i̯oŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ san²⁴ mak̚²/

/t͡suŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ (j)i̯oŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ san²⁴ mak̚²/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² iɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² suã⁴⁴⁻²² mẽʔ⁴/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ iɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ suã⁴⁴⁻³³ mẽʔ⁴/

/tiɔŋ³³ iɔŋ³³ suã³³ beʔ²⁴/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² iaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² suã⁴⁴⁻²² mɛ̃ʔ¹²¹/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ iaŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ suã⁴⁴⁻³³ mẽʔ⁴/

Central Mountain Range
Central Mountain Range


中南

/ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ nän³⁵/

/t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ naːm²¹/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² lam²⁴/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² lam¹³/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ lam²⁴/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ lam²³/

/ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ nän³⁵/

/t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ naːm²¹/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² lam²⁴/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² lam¹³/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ lam²⁴/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ lam²³/


Tamsui

From romanization of Hokkien 淡水 (Tām-súi); internationally conventional translation.

To this time the Dutch had kept two garrisons in the North of Formosa, one of which was at Fort Kelang, taken from the Spaniards ; the other was at a place called Tamsui, about ten leagues to the westward of Kelang.

1813, James Burney, A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean, volume 3, London: Luke Hansard and Sons, page 257:

Being driven off Taewan by a heavy gale, she ran to the northward, and, when the gale moderated, found herself off the town of Tamsui (Tanshuy), near the northernmost end of the island.

1837 May, “Coast of China”, in The Chinese Repository, volume VI, number 1, page 11:

SIR: I have the honor to report that the governor of Formosa, Lin Ming-Chuan, has made a contract with Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., for the supply by the latter of rails, rolling stock, and bridge for a narrow-gauge, light-weight railway of 80 miles in length.
The line is to be from Tamsui to Changhua, the future capital of the island. The only stream to bridge is the Taikia River. It will be spanned by a lattice girder bridge in two sections, of a joint length of 1,400 feet.

1888, Mr. Denby to Mr. Bayard (Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States for the Year 1887), number 179, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 224:

After the war between Great Britain and China, which culminated in 1860 in the Treat of Tientsin, two Formosan ports, Takau and Tamsui, were thrown open to foreign trade in accordance with provisions in that treaty, and British subjects and missionaries were to be allowed safe-conducts in the island.

1902, Archibald Ross Colquhoun, The Mastery of the Pacific, Macmillan Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 385:

The Japanese have made extensive preparations for the defense of Formosa and the Pescadores. [For a description of the Pescadores and a map, see THE INDEPENDENT for February 16th.] The Pescadores Islands have been supplied with provisions and ammunition for two years and heavy guns mounted in strategic positions. In Formosa the ports of Keelung and Tamsui are strongly protected by mines. The garrison is estimated at 15,000 men. The island is declared to be under martial law and in a state of siege.

1905 May 18, “The War on Sea and Land”, in The Independent, volume LVIII, number 2946, page 1096:

According to the British Consul at Tamsui, the output of coal in Formosa in 1918 was 801,520 tons.

1919 December, “More Coal in the East”, in South African Mining and Engineering Journal, page 163:

It is widely believed that as many as 300,000 American troops are soon to arrive. Young Formosans who have served with United States forces in the Philippines and elsewhere are frequent visitors, seeking employment with the expected American troops. At one time 16 called in a body. No criticism has yet been heard of this anticipated influx of American forces. Some rumors allege that 1,600 men have already landed at the river port of Tamsui.

1947 January 10, Ralph J. Blake, REPORTS ON THE SITUATION IN FORMOSA (TAIWAN), PARTICULARLY RESPECTING FORMOSAN DISSATISFACTION WITH ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES OF THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT (Foreign Relations of the United States 1947), volume 7, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 424:

Shu Lin Kou Station, usually referred to as Linkou, is situated on a mountain plateau approximately 16 miles northwest of Taipei, the capital of the Republic of China. It is a few miles southwest of the Tamsui River and about five miles from the China Sea.

1970 May 10, “China Yearbook 1969-1970”, in The Hallmark, volume 3, number 5, China Publishing Co., page 8:

The engineering unit on Sept. 10 successfully placed the third and last arched beam, weighing 1,750 metric tons with a length of 166 meters, utilizing the tidal current on the Tamsui River. On the east side of the river, the 539-meter-long bridge meets the highway that runs between Taipei and Tamsui.

1983 September 18, “Unique Kuantu Bridge To Open In October”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXIV, number 37, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

Board a bus or subway car here, and you may well see images of the troupe’s dancers emblazoned on the sides. Visit the popular Tamsui district and you may catch a glimpse of the company’s gleaming new $22 million home, which opened officially in April.

2015 September 11, Amy Qin, “Cloud Gate Dance Theater: A Roving, Bounding Symbol of Taiwan”, in New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-09-13:

That evening, the conference banquet was held at a restaurant in the Tamsui District.

2018, Brooks Davis, “Conference Report”, in FreeBSD Journal, page 24:

The Mackay Memorial Hospital in Tamsui, New Taipei City, on Wednesday (June 2) reported 13 asymptomatic cases of COVID-19.

2021 January 6, Matthew Strong, “Taiwan’s Mackay Memorial Hospital reports 13 asymptomatic COVID cases”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2021-06-02:

A church in Tamsui, north of Taipei, whose congregants are mostly from Hong Kong live-streamed a prayer session in commemoration of those who died.

2022 June 4, Vic Chiang, “Tiananmen vigils gain prominence in Taiwan as Chinese threat looms”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-06-04, Asia:

A district of New Taipei City, northern Taiwan.

Tamsui District Office light rail station


Tamsui

Tamsui (a district of New Taipei City, northern Taiwan)


苗栗

→ English: Miaoli, Miao-li

/mi̯ɑʊ̯³⁵ li⁵¹/

/miːu̯²¹ lɵt̚²/

/miãu²³⁻³³ liɪk̚⁴/

/miãu²⁴⁻¹¹ liɪk̚⁴/

/biau¹³⁻²² lit̚¹²¹/

/mi̯ɑʊ̯³⁵ li⁵¹/

/miːu̯²¹ lɵt̚²/

/miãu²³⁻³³ liɪk̚⁴/

/miãu²⁴⁻¹¹ liɪk̚⁴/

/biau¹³⁻²² lit̚¹²¹/

Alternation of 貓貍 (Bâ-lî, literally “viverrid”) or 貓里／貓裏 (Bâ-lí), from Babuza Bari (“name of a tribe”).

zh-l

貓里／貓裏 (Bâ-lí)

(～市) Miaoli (a city in Miaoli County, Taiwan)


苗栗

Miaoli (a county-administered city in Miaoli County, Taiwan)


雲林

/wɐn²¹ lɐm²¹/

/huŋ⁵³⁻³³ ⁽ˡ⁻⁾nˡiŋ⁵³/

/wɐn²¹ lɐm²¹/

/huŋ⁵³⁻³³ ⁽ˡ⁻⁾nˡiŋ⁵³/


臺東

/tʰaɪ̯³⁵ tʊŋ⁵⁵/

/tʰɔːi̯²¹ tʊŋ⁵⁵/

/tʰoi̯¹¹ tuŋ²⁴/

/tai⁵³⁻⁵⁵ ⁽ᵗ⁻⁾løyŋ⁵⁵/

/tai²⁴⁻¹¹ taŋ⁴⁴/

/tai²³⁻³³ taŋ⁴⁴/

/tai¹³⁻²² tɔŋ⁴⁴/

/tai²⁴⁻²² tɔŋ³³/

/tai²⁴⁻²² tɔŋ⁴⁴/

/tʰaɪ̯³⁵ tʊŋ⁵⁵/

/tʰɔːi̯²¹ tʊŋ⁵⁵/

/tʰoi̯¹¹ tuŋ²⁴/

/tai⁵³⁻⁵⁵ ⁽ᵗ⁻⁾løyŋ⁵⁵/

/tai²⁴⁻¹¹ taŋ⁴⁴/

/tai²³⁻³³ taŋ⁴⁴/

/tai¹³⁻²² tɔŋ⁴⁴/

/tai²⁴⁻²² tɔŋ³³/

/tai²⁴⁻²² tɔŋ⁴⁴/

(～市) Taitung (a city in Taitung County, Taiwan)


白雲

/paɪ̯³⁵ yn³⁵/

/pɛ(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ hun¹³/

/peʔ⁴⁻² huŋ⁵⁵/

/paɪ̯³⁵ yn³⁵/

/pɛ(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ hun¹³/

/peʔ⁴⁻² huŋ⁵⁵/

(～村) Baiyun (a rural village in Jiaoxi, Yilan County, Taiwan)


恆春

/xɤŋ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ən⁵⁵/

/hɐŋ²¹ t͡sʰɵn⁵⁵/

/hiɪŋ²⁴⁻²² t͡sʰun⁴⁴/

/hiɪŋ²⁴⁻²² t͡sʰun³³/

/hiɪŋ¹³⁻²² t͡sʰun⁴⁴/

/hiɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sʰun⁴⁴/

/hiɪŋ²³⁻³³ t͡sʰun⁴⁴/

/xɤŋ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ən⁵⁵/

/hɐŋ²¹ t͡sʰɵn⁵⁵/

/hiɪŋ²⁴⁻²² t͡sʰun⁴⁴/

/hiɪŋ²⁴⁻²² t͡sʰun³³/

/hiɪŋ¹³⁻²² t͡sʰun⁴⁴/

/hiɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sʰun⁴⁴/

/hiɪŋ²³⁻³³ t͡sʰun⁴⁴/

(～鎮) Hengchun (an urban township in Pingtung County, Taiwan)