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"ref": "1998, Robert Storey, Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 4th edition (Travel), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 260:",
"text": "Kaohsiung is the second largest city in Taiwan and has the biggest seaport.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2021 May 15, Lily Kuo, “Taiwan raises coronavirus alert level as residents stockpile toilet paper and food”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 2021-08-08:",
"text": "The mayor of Kaohsiung, Chen Chi-mai, said the southern port city on Saturday also implemented new rules requiring face masks and social distancing.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2021 October 15, Amy Qin, Amy Chang Chien, “A Last-Chance ‘Ghost’ Building in Taiwan Becomes a Deathtrap for Many”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-10-15:",
"text": "On Friday, three months after she moved in, Ms. Huang was feeling grateful not to be among the dead after a fire tore through the partly abandoned 13-story mixed-used building on Thursday night in the southern port city of Kaohsiung.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2022 April 3, Ben Blanchard, “Taiwan says new COVID cases won't affect re-opening plans”, in Simon Cameron-Moore, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-04-03:",
"text": "Speaking to reporters in the southern city of Kaohsiung, Su said the \"new Taiwan model\" in combating COVID-19 was a \"normal life, active epidemic prevention and steady opening\".",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2023 March 18, Alexander Görlach, “Opinion: Facing China, Manila cozies up to US”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2023-03-18, CONFLICTS:",
"text": "Kaohsiung, a city on Taiwan's southern coast, is the 15th-busiest container port in the world. There would be global repercussions and immediate consequences for the Philippines should the port again be blocked by Chinese forces, as occurred temporarily in August following the visit of US lawmaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A city and special municipality in southern Taiwan, and the third largest city in Taiwan."
],
"links": [
[
"Taiwan",
"Taiwan#English"
],
[
"Taiwan",
"Taiwan"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with historical senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Historical political subdivisions",
"en:Places in Taiwan"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1981 December 6, “Progress and plenty in Kaohsiung county”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 48, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 1:",
"text": "Occupying an area of 2,793, square kilometers, Kaohsiung county lists agriculture as its most important economic activity, followed by industry, commerce and fishing. While it is only 60 kilometers long, the county's coastline is extremely favorable to fishing activities.\nWith its attractive mountain and seaside scenery, Kaohsiung county has enjoyed rapid development in the tourism industry. The best-known tourist attractions are the Chengching lake in the outskirts of Kaohsiung city, and Fokuangshan, where there are many Buddhist relics.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"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"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A former county of Taiwan."
],
"links": [
[
"Taiwan",
"Taiwan#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(historical) A former county of Taiwan."
],
"tags": [
"historical"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkaʊ ˈʃjʊŋ/"
},
{
"enpr": "kouʹshyo͝ongʹ"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɡaʊ ˈʃjʊŋ/"
},
{
"enpr": "gouʹshyo͝ongʹ"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"abbreviation"
],
"word": "KHH"
},
{
"sense": "from Hokkien",
"word": "Takau"
},
{
"sense": "from Mandarin",
"word": "Dagou"
},
{
"word": "Takou"
},
{
"word": "Takow"
},
{
"sense": "from Japanese",
"word": "Takao"
},
{
"word": "Kao Hsiung"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"from Wade–Giles"
],
"tags": [
"also"
],
"word": "Kao-hsiung"
},
{
"word": "Kaohiung"
},
{
"word": "Kaosiung"
},
{
"alt": "Tongyong Pinyin",
"word": "Gaosyong"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hanyu-Pinyin"
],
"word": "Gaoxiong"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "kawšyūnḡ",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "كَاوْشْيُونْغ"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḡawšyūnḡ",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "غَاوْشْيُونْغ"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"word": "Kaohsiung"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"english": "gou¹ hung⁴",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"word": "高雄"
},
{
"code": "hak",
"lang": "Hakka Chinese",
"roman": "Kô-hiùng",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"word": "高雄"
},
{
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "Tá-káu, Táⁿ-káu",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "打狗"
},
{
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "zh-min-nan",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "高雄"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Gāoxióng",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"word": "高雄"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"word": "Kao-siung"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"word": "Kaohsiung"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"word": "Kaohsiung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"word": "Kaohsiung"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"word": "Kaohsziung"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"word": "Kaohsiung"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "Takao",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"word": "高雄"
},
{
"alt": "高雄",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "Goung",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"word": "고웅"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "Gaosyung",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"word": "가오슝"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"word": "Gaosiongas"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "Káosjung",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Ка́осјунг"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "Gáosjung",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Га́осјунг"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"word": "Kaohsiung"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"word": "Kaohsiung"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "Gaosjún",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Гаосю́н"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"word": "Kaohsiung"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "Gao-syǒng",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"word": "เกาสฺยง"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "Gao-sǒng",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "เกาสง"
},
{
"alt": "高雄",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "a large city in Taiwan",
"word": "Cao Hùng"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Kaohsiung Exhibition Center"
],
"word": "Kaohsiung"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Kaohsiung meaning in English (11.1kB)
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