Cishan

See also: císhàn

English

Cishan District Office Kaohsiung City

Alternative forms

(from Wade–Giles) Ch'i-shan, Chishan
(from Hanyu Pinyin) Qishan

Etymology

From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 旗山 (Císhan).

Proper noun

Cishan

A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
- 2009 August 9, “Typhoon slams Taiwan, China, Japan”, in NBC News‎, archived from the original on 21 December 2021:
  Taiwan Red Cross members escort rescued residents who were trapped following Typhoon Morakot, to receive medical care in Cishan, Taiwan, 12 August 2009. Taiwan soldiers on 12 August found 70 more survivors from a village buried by a mudslide, bringing to 1,000 the number of people found alive in mountain region affected by landslides in the southern county of Kaohsiung.
- 2009 August 14, “Ma: more than 500 feared dead in typhoon”, in China Daily‎, archived from the original on August 19, 2009:
  In Cishan, a storm-ravaged town of 41,000, both road bridges had collapsed, smashing houses and taking down cars. Residents jammed a footbridge which remained standing.
  Rescuers used earth movers to clear mud from roads as hundreds of people cleaned homes or storefronts, heaving out water-logged possessions.
  "My store has been closed for days because I figured no one could get to it," said Chen Chih-lu, who owns a furniture shop in Cishan. "My guess is 90 percent of us are digging out of the mud."
  Outside Cishan, swathes of banana trees lay flat in the mud, testimony to agricultural losses totalling T$10 billion. Food prices soared by up to 50 percent and some staples were in short supply.
- 2014, Robert Kelly, Chung Wah Chow, Taiwan‎, 9th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, OCLC 951274659, page 206:
  The trail runs relatively wide and flat most of the way, skirting the northern slopes of the deep, V-shaped Cishan River (旗山溪) valley.
- 2014, Hsieh, KaiHsun; Wu YongPei; Lin SuJu, “Investigation of the functional compositions of turmeric collected from Cishan District of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.”, in Crop, Environment & Bioinformatics‎, volume 11, number 3, ISSN 1811-7406, OCLC 182846178:
  We gathered 500 turmeric buds from Cishan District of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan in February 2008.
- 2015, A Fotiadis, C Vassiliadis, SP Yeh, “Participant’s preferences for small-scale sporting events: a comparative analysis of a Greek and a Taiwanese cycling event”, in EuroMed Journal of Business‎, ISSN 1450-2194, OCLC 723917777, page 3:
  “Bike to Remember” is a cycling event in Cishan District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan and has been held for 5 times already. The event is created in memory a typhoon that destroyed a great part of this area. Although the area has now been rebuilt the organizers wanted later generations to know about the disaster and they encouraged participants to write a brief ‘feeling’ paragraph on Facebook after the competitive activity had finished.
- 2019, Yang Su-min and Evelyn Kao, “Taiwan reports first-ever H5N5 avian influenza case”, in Focus Taiwan‎:
  Taiwan has confirmed the country's first case of the highly pathogenic H5N5 strain of avian influenza on a duck farm in Cishan District, Kaohsiung, Council of Agriculture (COA) Deputy Minister Huang Chin-cheng (黃金城) said Monday.
- 2019, Chen Ting-fang, “Da-ai Sewing Workshop”, in Hou Ya-ting, transl., Love Kaohsiung 愛·高雄, number 4, page 6:
  They now have more sewing machines than technicians, so they plan to allow residents from Cishan and Meinong to use them in training programs.
- 2020, Jason Pan, “Supreme Court rejects final spying case appeal”, in Taipei Times‎:
  Tu talked about his connections in the Kaohsiung area, and agreed to recruit people in Taiwan’s armed forces to gain access to confidential military material in exchange for money, prosecutors said.
  Tu recruited retired sergeant major Wang Jui-chi (王瑞祺), who was in charge of an ammunition depot in Kaohsiung’s Cishan District (旗山) while he was in the Army Logistics Command, they said.
  Tu introduced Wang to the Chinese officials and Dong gave Tu cash to give to Wang, they said.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Cishan.

Synonyms

Kizan

Translations

district in southern Taiwan

Chinese:
Mandarin: 旗山 (zh) (Qíshān)
Min Nan: 旗山 (Kî-san)

Anagrams

Cashin, Chains, Chians, Chinas, cash in, cash-in, chains, chasin', chinas