Chiaotou
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 橋頭 (Qiáotóu) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻiao²-tʻou².
Proper noun
Chiaotou
- Alternative form of Ciaotou
- 1996, Taiwan Sugar, number 41-43, ISSN 0492-1712, OCLC 1791619, page 29:
- The sweet success story told about the past of Taiwan's earliest sugarland—Chiaotou in Kaohsiung County—had an audience of about ten thousand on May 1st when the National Festival of Culture and Arts opened in the compound of the Taiwan Sugar […]
- 2001, Taipei Review, volume 51, ISSN 1608-702X, OCLC 43720216, page 55:
- A "blackhead" steams through fields of sugar cane near Chiaotou, Kaohsiung County, in March 1978.
- 2001, Rigger, Shelley, “Organization”, in rom Opposition to Power: Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party, Lynne Rienner Publishers, →ISBN, LCCN 00-068840, OCLC 1022691674, page 63:
- Third-tier activists view themselves as the DPP's fundamental vote-gathering mechanism, as these statements from third-tier leaders, interviewed in June 1999, attest: […]
• "This level—we call it the third level—is where the electoral work actually happens." (Chiaotou, Kaohsiung County)
- 2003, An Outline of Interior Affairs, Republic of China, 2003, →ISBN, OCLC 244483802, page 114:
- This park is the first large-scale public park in Taiwan. It is located on the border of Nantzu District in Kaohsiung City and Chiaotou village, Kaohsiung County and this park measures 95 hectares.
- 2013 September 2, “Kaohsiung Metropolitan Park”, in Construction and Planning Agency, Ministry of the Interior, archived from the original on 18 June 2022:
- II.Range and Area
It mainly bases on Chingpu Farm of Taiwan Sugar Corp., and the area is 95 hectares or so. The administration regions include Nanzih Dist. of Kaohsiung City and Chiaotou of Kaohsiung County.
- 2015 September 12, Su, Fu-nan; Jake Chung, “Yu Chen museum open to public”, in Taipei Times, archived from the original on 30 September 2015:
- A museum for Yu Chen Yueh-ying (余陳月瑛), commonly called the “Taiwanese Matsu” (台灣媽祖婆), was officially opened at the Yu family residence in Kaohsiung’s Chiaotou District (橋頭) on Thursday.
- 2021 February 28, President Tsai marks 228 Incident in Kaohsiung, Formosa Television, archived from the original on 27 November 2021, spoken by Tsai Ing-wen, 0:47 from the start:
- The Chiaotou Incident and the Kaohsiung Incident were watershed events for Taiwan’s road to democratization.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chiaotou.
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