Chiayi

Chiayi

See also: Chia-yi

English

嘉義市立博物館
Chiayi Municipal Museum

Alternative forms

• (postal romanization) Chiai
• (from Wade–Giles) Chia-i, Chia-yi
• (from Tongyong Pinyin; from Hanyu Pinyin) Jiayi

Etymology

From Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 嘉義／嘉义 (Jiāyì) Wade-Giles romanization: Chia¹-yi⁴.

Pronunciation

• enPR: jē-äʹēʹ
• enPR: jyäʹyēʹ[1]

Proper noun

Chiayi

1. A city in southwestern Taiwan.
   • 1939, “Formosans Fight for China”, in China at War‎, volume 3-4, Chungking: China Information Publishing Company, OCLC 1554305, page 74:

     In Chiayi and Ilan peasant uprisings broke out and could not be put down until the army had taken more than 700 farmers into custody.

   • 1947 June 7, Peggy Durdin, “Taiwan : China's Unhappy Colony”, in The Nation‎, volume 164, number 23, New York, pages 686:

     Since many factories have not been repaired or are operating at low capacity, there is much unemployment. Repatriation of overseas Taiwanese has aggravated the problem, which the government has made no real effort to solve. During the war the Japanese built at Chiayi a large factory for making high-octane gas. Now it is closed, and one-fifth of the town's population are out of work. It is not surprising that at Chiayi last month there was fierce fighting against the mainlanders.

   • 1985 July 15, Andrew Tanzer, “Y.C. Wang gets up very early in the morning”, in Forbes‎, volume 136, number 2, page 91:

     Thus one of C. L. Yang's teams recently spent three months studying the efficiency of the PVC and polyurethane (PU) packaging divisions of Nan Ya. By the time they left, 272 jobs had been eliminated and $7.45 million saved per year on materials. The same approach halved the steam used by FCFC to produce a ton of rayon and tripled productivity over three years in Nan Ya's PVC pipe plant in Chiayi.

   • 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).[...]Chiayi is still home to numerous koji craftsmen - in addition to its vibrant colours, koji is unique in that everything is handmade.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chiayi.
2. A county of Taiwan.
   • 1980 January 13, “Continued stress on people's welfare”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XXI, number 2, Taipei, page 1:

     Under the social security program, the government will expand insurance coverage to include dependents of public functionaries, and establish more clinics in Tainan, Chiayi, and Hsinchu countries^{[sic – meaning counties]}.

   • 2014, Jerome A. Cohen, Lu Hsiu-lien, Ashley Esarey, My Fight for a New Taiwan‎, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, LCCN 2013046731, OCLC 1039411006, OL 27156414M, page 240:

     In my next move, I sent one of my aides to Chiayi County to sign a contract to lease a landfill.

   • 2015, Wan-yao Chou (周婉窈), Carole Plackitt, Tim Casey, transl., A New Illustrated History of Taiwan‎, Taipei: SMC Publishing, →ISBN, page 160:

     In the battle of Tap'ulin (present-day Talin) in Chiayi County, the Taiwan Volunteers beat the Japanese and won back some territory, "an event unprecedented since the start of the Sino-Japanese War," which lifted the morale of the people.

   • 2021 January 16, Lin Chia-nan, “Planned science parks in Chiayi, Pingtung panned”, in Taiwan News‎, archived from the original on 15 January 2021, retrieved 15 January 2021:

     While the Executive Yuan is considering setting up science parks in Pingtung and Chiayi counties, there is some criticism about whether science parks are needed in every city and county.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chiayi.

Synonyms

• (from Pe̍h-ōe-jī) Ka-gi

Translations

a city in Taiwan

Arabic: جْيَائِي‎ m (jyāʾī), جْيَايِي‎ m (jyāyī), تْشْيَايِي‎ m (tšyāyī), تْشْيَائِي‎ m (tšyāʾī) Chinese: Cantonese: 嘉義, 嘉义 (gaa1 ji6) Hakka: 嘉義, 嘉义 (Kâ-ngi) Mandarin: 嘉義／嘉义 (zh) (Jiāyì) Min Nan: 嘉義 (zh-min-nan), 嘉义 (Ka-gī) Japanese: 嘉義 (かぎ, Kagi) Korean: 자이(嘉義) (Jai) Papora: please add this translation if you can Russian: Цзяи́ m (Czjaí) Vietnamese: Gia Nghĩa (嘉義)

References

1. Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kiayi or Chiayi”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, page 942, column 2

Further reading

• “Chiayi” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.