"Chienshih" meaning in English

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Proper name

Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 尖石 (Jiānshí) Wade–Giles romanization: Chien¹-shih². Etymology templates: {{bor|en|cmn|-}} Mandarin, {{zh-l|尖石}} 尖石 (Jiānshí), {{bor|en|cmn-wadegiles|-}} Wade–Giles Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Chienshih
  1. Alternative form of Jianshi Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: Jianshi
    Sense id: en-Chienshih-en-name-WjMzNjaO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1983 October 23, “Uranium Found in Taipei County”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XXIV, number 42, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 1",
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          "text": "The other main route follows the works road which runs from Chienshih Village in Chienshih Township, Hsinchu County, via the \"front mountain\" Atayal villages of Chinping, Tienpu and Hsiuluan, and ends a 40-minute walk away from[…]",
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          "ref": "2006 January 17, Jih-ching Peng, “US teacher bikes six hours to volunteer”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2006-01-26, Taiwan News, page 2",
          "text": "When Greenhoe visited Shihlei in the Houshan District (後山) of Hsinchu County's Chienshih Township (尖石) two years ago, he learned that the local school lacked an English teacher, and that English classes had therefore stopped.",
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          "ref": "2007 September 19, “Wipha brings woe, havoc to northern Taiwan area”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2022-10-04",
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          "text": "El Salvadorian student Alfonso, second right, and Panamanian student Yuriela, third right, teach students at Hsinle Elementary School in Hsinchu County’s Chienshih Township to speak English in this photo taken last Tuesday.",
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          "ref": "2019, Jeffrey Edward Nicolaisen, “Equality of Life: Thinking With Multi-Species Relationships in Taiwan”, in Duke University, archived from the original on 2022-06-30, page 334",
          "text": "In this chapter, I begin by introducing the Tayal Nation and providing a description of how their pre-Christian cosmology may have looked. With a generic cosmology as background, I introduce the particular community of Chienshih Township in the northern Taiwan county of Hsinchu.",
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