See Alian in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cmn",
"3": "阿蓮"
},
"expansion": "Mandarin 阿蓮／阿莲 (Ālián)",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Mandarin 阿蓮／阿莲 (Ālián).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Alian",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Kaohsiung",
"orig": "en:Kaohsiung",
"parents": [
"Taiwan",
"Asia",
"Earth",
"Eurasia",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Neighborhoods in Taiwan",
"orig": "en:Neighborhoods in Taiwan",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Places in Kaohsiung",
"orig": "en:Places in Kaohsiung",
"parents": [
"Places",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Places in Taiwan",
"orig": "en:Places in Taiwan",
"parents": [
"Places",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1999, Charles Brewer Jones, “The Early Japanese Period”, in Buddhism in Taiwan: Religion and the State, 1660-1990, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 54:",
"text": "Of the Four Great Ancestral Daochang, the Chaofeng Temple is the only one in the southern half of Taiwan; it sits on the slopes of Dagang Mountain in the Alian Rural District of Kaohsiung County.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012 July 22, I-chia Lee, “Eco-groups demand farm is protected from industry”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-09-01, Taiwan News, page 3:",
"text": "A community development association in Greater Kaohsiung’s Alian District (阿蓮) and environmental protection groups yesterday called for the protection of farmland owned by Taiwan Sugar Corp (Taisugar) and demanded that it not be developed into a metal-processing facility.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "Heavy Rain in Kaohsiung Leads to City-wide Flooding",
"ref": "2018 June 20, “高雄地區強降雨 市區馬路變水路! [Heavy Rain in Kaohsiung Leads to City-wide Flooding]”, in Public Television Service, archived from the original on 2022-10-19:",
"text": "According to the Central Weather Bureau, Luzhu District received over 50 millimeters of rain on the morning of the 20th while Cianjhen, Siaogang, Cijin and Alian received over 30 millimeters.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2019, Chiung-Wei Huang, Zhi-Yuan Su, “Common Chronic Illnesses of the Elderly: An Analysis of a Retired Doctor's Perspectives”, in 2019 IEEE Eurasia Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare and Sustainability (ECBIOS), →DOI, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-19:",
"text": "This study examined the types of illnesses and health issues of the residents living in the countryside of Alian District, Kaohsiung City. The research methods of the study included structured interviews and coding. The interviewee was a retired doctor who had served at a clinic in the countryside of Alian District.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2022 April 28, Keoni Everington, “Photos of 5 repeat DUI offenders posted in Kaohsiung, Taiwan”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2022-05-07, Society:",
"text": "They were caught drunk driving for the second time from April 4-10 in Kaohsiung's Dashu District, Alian District, and Nanzih District, with three found to be driving without a license.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan."
],
"id": "en-Alian-en-name-Ywd02A3P",
"links": [
[
"district",
"district"
],
[
"Kaohsiung",
"Kaohsiung#English"
],
[
"Taiwan",
"Taiwan#English"
]
],
"related": [
{
"word": "Ah Lian"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"alt": "Wade–Giles",
"word": "Alien"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "district",
"word": "阿蓮"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Ālián",
"sense": "district",
"word": "阿莲"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Alian"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "äʹlyěnʹ"
}
],
"word": "Alian"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cmn",
"3": "阿蓮"
},
"expansion": "Mandarin 阿蓮／阿莲 (Ālián)",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Mandarin 阿蓮／阿莲 (Ālián).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Alian",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"related": [
{
"word": "Ah Lian"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English 2-syllable words",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English proper nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Mandarin",
"English terms derived from Mandarin",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"en:Kaohsiung",
"en:Neighborhoods in Taiwan",
"en:Places in Kaohsiung",
"en:Places in Taiwan"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1999, Charles Brewer Jones, “The Early Japanese Period”, in Buddhism in Taiwan: Religion and the State, 1660-1990, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 54:",
"text": "Of the Four Great Ancestral Daochang, the Chaofeng Temple is the only one in the southern half of Taiwan; it sits on the slopes of Dagang Mountain in the Alian Rural District of Kaohsiung County.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012 July 22, I-chia Lee, “Eco-groups demand farm is protected from industry”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-09-01, Taiwan News, page 3:",
"text": "A community development association in Greater Kaohsiung’s Alian District (阿蓮) and environmental protection groups yesterday called for the protection of farmland owned by Taiwan Sugar Corp (Taisugar) and demanded that it not be developed into a metal-processing facility.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "Heavy Rain in Kaohsiung Leads to City-wide Flooding",
"ref": "2018 June 20, “高雄地區強降雨 市區馬路變水路! [Heavy Rain in Kaohsiung Leads to City-wide Flooding]”, in Public Television Service, archived from the original on 2022-10-19:",
"text": "According to the Central Weather Bureau, Luzhu District received over 50 millimeters of rain on the morning of the 20th while Cianjhen, Siaogang, Cijin and Alian received over 30 millimeters.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2019, Chiung-Wei Huang, Zhi-Yuan Su, “Common Chronic Illnesses of the Elderly: An Analysis of a Retired Doctor's Perspectives”, in 2019 IEEE Eurasia Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare and Sustainability (ECBIOS), →DOI, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-19:",
"text": "This study examined the types of illnesses and health issues of the residents living in the countryside of Alian District, Kaohsiung City. The research methods of the study included structured interviews and coding. The interviewee was a retired doctor who had served at a clinic in the countryside of Alian District.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2022 April 28, Keoni Everington, “Photos of 5 repeat DUI offenders posted in Kaohsiung, Taiwan”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2022-05-07, Society:",
"text": "They were caught drunk driving for the second time from April 4-10 in Kaohsiung's Dashu District, Alian District, and Nanzih District, with three found to be driving without a license.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan."
],
"links": [
[
"district",
"district"
],
[
"Kaohsiung",
"Kaohsiung#English"
],
[
"Taiwan",
"Taiwan#English"
]
],
"wikipedia": [
"Alian"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "äʹlyěnʹ"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"alt": "Wade–Giles",
"word": "Alien"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "district",
"word": "阿蓮"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Ālián",
"sense": "district",
"word": "阿莲"
}
],
"word": "Alian"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Alian meaning in English (3.8kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.