Syuejia
English
Syuejia Precinct Tainan City Police Department
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Hsuehchia, Hsüeh-chia
- (from Hanyu Pinyin) Xuejia
Etymology
From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 學甲 (Syuéjiǎ).
Proper noun
Syuejia
- A district of Tainan, Taiwan.
- 2003, Taiwan Yearbook, Government Information Office, OCLC 53438230, page 598:
- Performing groups, including stilt walkers and musical bands, draw crowds to one of the most elaborate processions in Taiwan, held in Syuejia 學甲, Tainan County 台南縣, in honor of the tenth century healer, Wu Pen 吳本.
- 2007, Keeling, Stephen; Brice Minnigh, “Central Taiwan”, in The Rough Guide to Taiwan (Rough Guides), Penguin, →ISBN, OCLC 466340762, page 287:
- Yeh Wang (1826-1889), a master craftsman born in Chiayi, founded the Taiwanese branch of the industry, and though his work is rare these days, you can still see some of his original figures in Ciji Temple in Syuejia near Tainan (see p.333).
- 2016, Kastner, Scott L.; Margaret M. Pearson, “Winning Hearts and Minds? On the Sources and Efficacy of Economic Engagement Policies in US-China and China-Taiwan Relations”, in Steven E. Lobell; Norrin M Ripsman, editors, The Political Economy of Regional Peacemaking, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, LCCN 2015037515, OCLC 1034942441, pages 159-160:
- The Taiwanese milkfish industry has faced troubles in recent years, and in 2011 a state-owned PRC firm placed an order for the fish from the town of Syuejia (Xuejia) in Tainan County.
- 2022 January 24, Chen, Cheng-hui, “Wind energy project to cost NT$3bn”, in Taipei Times, archived from the original on 23 January 2022:
- Golden Grande, a maker of personal protective equipment — such as masks, protective eyewear, earmuffs and industrial helmets — plans to invest NT$400 million to install smart production lines and advanced manufacturing equipment at its facilities in Tainan’s Syuejia District (學甲), the ministry said.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Syuejia.
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Translations
district in south Taiwan
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