"Chia-i" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 嘉義 (Jiāyì) Wade–Giles romanization: Chia¹-i⁴.",
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          "ref": "1891 June 17, “Opium Trade of Tainan”, in Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter, page 35",
          "text": "Recently the poppy bas been planted In the Changhua and Chia-i districts in Mid-Formosa, and although it is not at present cultivated to any great extent, and the opium produced is entirely consumed in those districts, there no reason that the cultivation should not spread to other parts of the island.",
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          "ref": "1970, Leonard H. D. Gordon, editor, Taiwan: Studies in Chinese Local History, Columbia University Press, page 54",
          "text": "The Imperial Guards met with occasional stubborn resistance on the part of i-yung and i-min forces, supported by Black Flag detachments, as they drove southward toward the Yün-lin and Chia-i districts early in October. Nonetheless, their advance was rapid. The district seat of Yün-lin (Tou-liu) fell on October 7, and the important center of Chia-i two days later. After a brief rest, the Imperial Guards pushed to a place within ten miles of Tainan city on the twentieth.",
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          "ref": "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",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1994, Patricia Fisher, editor, Age Erasers for Women, Emmaus, Penn.: Rodale Press, →OCLC, page 488",
          "text": "In research with S. T. Tina Huang, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at the National Chung-Cheng University in Chia-i, Taiwan, Dr. Enright found that the longer people hold on to their resentment, the more it tends to affect their blood pressure readings.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Gene Eric Salecker, Blossoming Silk Against the Rising Sun, Stackpole Books, →OCLC, page 20",
          "text": "Once at full strength, the Yokosuka 1st SNLF was made a part of the 21st Naval Air Fleet of the 11th Air Fleet and sent to Kagi Airfield at Chia-i on the island of Taiwan.",
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        "Alternative form of Chiayi"
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      "enpr": "jē-äʹēʹ"
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  "word": "Chia-i"
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          "ref": "1891 June 17, “Opium Trade of Tainan”, in Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter, page 35",
          "text": "Recently the poppy bas been planted In the Changhua and Chia-i districts in Mid-Formosa, and although it is not at present cultivated to any great extent, and the opium produced is entirely consumed in those districts, there no reason that the cultivation should not spread to other parts of the island.",
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          "text": "The Imperial Guards met with occasional stubborn resistance on the part of i-yung and i-min forces, supported by Black Flag detachments, as they drove southward toward the Yün-lin and Chia-i districts early in October. Nonetheless, their advance was rapid. The district seat of Yün-lin (Tou-liu) fell on October 7, and the important center of Chia-i two days later. After a brief rest, the Imperial Guards pushed to a place within ten miles of Tainan city on the twentieth.",
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          "text": "In research with S. T. Tina Huang, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at the National Chung-Cheng University in Chia-i, Taiwan, Dr. Enright found that the longer people hold on to their resentment, the more it tends to affect their blood pressure readings.",
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          "text": "Once at full strength, the Yokosuka 1st SNLF was made a part of the 21st Naval Air Fleet of the 11th Air Fleet and sent to Kagi Airfield at Chia-i on the island of Taiwan.",
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      "enpr": "jē-äʹēʹ"
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  "word": "Chia-i"
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