Kaohsiung

Kao Hsiung Kao-hsiung English thumb|Kaohsiung Exhibition Center Alternative forms en Kao Hsiung Kao-hsiung also from _ Wade-Giles en Gaosyong Tongyong Pinyin en Gaoxiong Pinyin rare en Kaohiung Kaosiung Etymology en cmn-wadegiles - romanization of en cmn 高雄 Kao¹-hsiung², from en ja 高雄 Takao (whence also Takao), from en nan-hbl 打狗 Tá-káu (whence also Takau), from en fos takau bamboo forest. late 1945.en 1962 Linguist 24 https://books.google.com/books?id=JEcdAQAAMAAJ 296 1 En route we ran into one of the crewmen of the freighter, for whom Kao¹ Hsiung², sometimes written Kaohsiung, was not a new port.en 2005 Jeroen Wiedenhof Jeroen Wiedenhof Purpose and effect in the transcription of Mandarin Proceedings of the International Conference on Chinese Studies 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20070319162614/https://www.wiedenhof.nl/ul/tk/pbl/articles/purp&eff.pdf 390 Within the same plate, place names in China are spelled in Pīnyīn without tone symbols, e.g. “Quanzhou” for zh 泉州, Pīnyīn Quánzhōu, Wade Giles Ch’üan²-chou¹; but place names in Taiwan reflect the Wade-Giles system, again dispensing with tones: “Kao-hsiung” and “Kaohsiung” for zh 高雄, Wade Giles Kao¹-hsiung², Pīnyīn Gāoxióng. Pronunciation en /ˌkaʊ ˈʃjʊŋ/, kou′shyo͝ong′ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Kaohsiung.wav Southern England en /ˌɡaʊ ˈʃjʊŋ/ gou′shyo͝ong′Kaohiung, Kaosiung, or Kaohsiung 908 3Kao-hsiung or Kao·hiung 371 2 en Kaohsiung pronounced with the "g" initial consonant sound is documented in English, see above reference works en Kao hsiung Proper noun en Q181557 en city/and/special municipality in southern c/Taiwan, and the third largest city in Taiwan. en Kaohsiung City en 1946-12-14 John Stenhouse China's Economy Since the Japanese Surrender Foreign Commerce Weekly Washington, D.C. w:Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce XXV 11 https://archive.org/details/sim_international-commerce_1946-12-14_25_11/ 0097-3041 1950822 4 https://archive.org/details/sim_international-commerce_1946-12-14_25_11/page/4/ 1 Although many factors in the industrial picture remain unfavorable, the Government reportedly is taking steps toward rehabilitation of industry. Repairs to the oil refinery at Kaohsiung (Takao) in Taiwan (Formosa) are being made, reportedly under the direction of engineers of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, under the auspices of the China Petroleum Corporation, a subsidiary of the National Resources Commission. This plant, formerly owned by the Japanese, was damaged during the war. en 1978 Kung-Ping Wang; E. Chin Mineral Economics and Basic Industries in Asia Boulder, Colorado w:Westview Press https://archive.org/details/mineraleconomics00wang/ 0-89158-411-0 77-25267 3481257 4555438M 309 https://archive.org/details/mineraleconomics00wang/page/309/ The existing steel industry is centered at Kaohsiung and is based mainly on local and imported scrap. An integrated steelworks being built by CI&S, also at Kaohsiung, will have an annual ingot capacity of 1.5 million tons by 1977 and, it is hoped 6 million tons by 1983; the bulk of the raw materials needed will be from foreign sources. Meanwhile, large tonnages of finished steel produced are imported. en 1998 Robert Storey Taiwan w:Lonely Planet travel https://archive.org/details/taiwan00stor/ 4th 0-86442-634-8 970524541 260 https://archive.org/details/taiwan00stor/page/260/ Kaohsiung is the second largest city in Taiwan and has the biggest seaport. 2021-05-15 Lily Kuo Taiwan raises coronavirus alert level as residents stockpile toilet paper and food https://web.archive.org/web/20210808001751/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/taiwan-coronavirus-surge-measures/2021/05/15/e3b1836e-b544-11eb-a980-a60af976ed44_story.html The mayor of Kaohsiung, Chen Chi-mai, said the southern port city on Saturday also implemented new rules requiring face masks and social distancing. 2021-10-15 Amy Qin; Amy Chang Chien A Last-Chance ‘Ghost’ Building in Taiwan Becomes a Deathtrap for Many https://web.archive.org/web/20211015074120/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/world/asia/taiwan-building-fire.html 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. en 2022-04-03 Ben Blanchard Simon Cameron-Moore Taiwan says new COVID cases won't affect re-opening plans w:Reuters https://web.archive.org/web/20220403170358/https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwan-says-new-covid-cases-wont-affect-re-opening-plans-2022-04-03/ 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". en 2023-01-14 Han Ting-ting; Frances Huang ASE's plant in Kaohsiung selected as WEF 'lighthouse factory' https://web.archive.org/web/20230114095012/https://focustaiwan.tw/sci-tech/202301140011 2023-01-14 w:Focus Taiwan Science & Tech A high-end IC packaging and testing plant in Kaohsiung owned by Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc., a 100-percent-owned subsidiary of ASE Technology Holding Co., has been selected as a "lighthouse factory" by the World Economic Forum (WEF). en 2023-03-18 w:Alexander Görlach Opinion: Facing China, Manila cozies up to US w:Deutsche Welle Conflicts https://web.archive.org/web/20230318061842/https://www.dw.com/en/opinion-china-in-mind-philippines-cozies-up-to-us/a-65015992 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. en en historical en former county c/Taiwan. from 20th c. en 1981-12-06 Progress and plenty in Kaohsiung county Free China Weekly Taipei XXII 48 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1981-12-06_22_48/ 0016-0318 1786626 2 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1981-12-06_22_48/page/n1/ 1 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. ¶ With 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. en 1999 Charles Brewer Jones The Early Japanese Period Buddhism in Taiwan: Religion and the State, 1660–1990 Honolulu w:University of Hawaiʻi Press https://archive.org/details/buddhismintaiwan0000jone/ 9780824820619 98-31740 231785239 54 https://archive.org/details/buddhismintaiwan0000jone/page/54/ 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. en Synonyms en KHH from Hokkien en Takau from Mandarin en Dagou, en Takou, en Takow from Japanese en Takao Descendants mul 1 Pseudoxanthomonas kaohsiungensis Translations a large city in Taiwan Arabic: ar كَاوْشْيُونْغ m, ar غَاوْشْيُونْغ m Catalan: ca Kaohsiung Chinese: Cantonese: yue 高雄 gou1 hung4 Hakka: hak 高雄 Kô-hiùng Hokkien: nan-hbl 打狗 Tá-káu, Táⁿ-káu, nan-hbl 高雄 Ko-hiông Mandarin: cmn 高雄 Czech: cs Kao-siung Dutch: nl Kaohsiung Finnish: fi Kaohsiung German: de Kaohsiung Hindi: hi काऊशुंग Hungarian: hu Kaohsziung Italian: it Kaohsiung Japanese: ja 高雄 Takao Korean: ko ^고웅(高雄), ko ^가오슝 Lithuanian: lt Gaosiongas Macedonian: mk Ка́осјунг m, mk Га́осјунг m Polish: pl Kaohsiung m-in Portuguese: pt Kaohsiung Russian: ru Гаосю́н m Spanish: es Kaohsiung Thai: th เกาสฺยง Gao-syǒng, informal th เกาสง Gao-sǒng Vietnamese: vi Cao Hùng (vi 高雄) See also References Further reading pn Kaohsiung, Kao-hsiung, Kao Hsiung, Gaoxiong, Gao Xiong, Kaohiung, Kaosiung, Takao, Takau, Takow French fr: Pronunciation [o:w,hs:sh,u:ou,ng:ŋ] Proper noun m fr Kaohsiung Q181557 fr 10/14/2021 À Taïwan, l'incendie d'un immeuble fait des dizaines de morts https://web.archive.org/web/20211014130016/https://www.france24.com/fr/asie-pacifique/20211014-à-taïwan-l-incendie-d-un-immeuble-fait-des-dizaines-de-morts w:France 24 Asie-Pacifique L'incendie d'un immeuble d'habitation a causé la mort, jeudi 14 octobre, d'au moins 46 personnes et a fait des dizaines de blessés à Kaohsiung, dans le sud de Taïwan. On Thursday 14 October, a fire in a block of flats caused the death of at least 46 people and injured dozens in Kaohsiung, in the south of Taiwan. German de: Proper noun toponym de Kaohsiung Q181557 de 03/14/2023 w:Alexander Görlach Görlach Global: Philippinen und USA - Wiederbelebung einer alten Allianz zum Schutz vor China https://web.archive.org/web/20230314121013/https://www.dw.com/de/görlach-global-philippinen-und-usa-wiederbelebung-einer-alten-allianz-zum-schutz-vor-china/a-64978464 w:Deutsche Welle ASIEN Im Süden Taiwans liegt die Hafenstadt Kaohsiung, Nummer 15 der größten Containerhäfen der Welt. Sollte er, wie schon im August 2022 nach dem Besuch der US-Politikerin Nancy Pelosi kurzzeitig geschehen, von der chinesischen Marine blockiert werden, hat dies Auswirkungen auf die gesamte Welt - und erst recht auf die Philippinen. 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. Italian it: Proper noun ? it Kaohsiung Q181557 Portuguese pt: Proper noun f pt Kaohsiung Q181557 Spanish es: Pronunciation Kaosiúng Kaoshiúng + Proper noun es Kaohsiung Q181557