# Suao
## English
### Alternative forms

* Su-ao (Wade–Giles)
* Su'ao

### Etymology

From Mandarin 蘇澳 (Sū'ào).

### Proper noun

Suao
* An urban township in Yilan County, Taiwan.
** 1973 June 3, “Railroad of Prosperity”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly]‎, volume XIV, number 21, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 2:To build a railroad between Suao and Hualien is not easy. The distance, only 81 kilometers (49 miles), is not long, but the terrain poses forbiddingly difficult problems.
** 1978, Kung-Ping Wang, E. Chin, Mineral Economics and Basic Industries in Asia‎, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 310:The Suao harbor is being built to accommodate industry and commerce in the northeast and to complement Keelung.
** 1994 July, Robert Storey, “North Taiwan”, in Taiwan - A Travel Survival Kit‎, 3rd edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 196, column 2:Suao has a large harbour with an entrance surrounded by fences and a police checkpoint.
** 2003, Vivien Kim, editor, Taiwan (Insight Guides)‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 175:On to Suao A quarter-hour south of Ilan lies the international seaport of Suao 17, though by no means on the same scale as Keelung or Kaohsiung. It’s worth a stop for two reasons: its famous cold springs and the nearby fishing port of Nanfang Ao.
** 2004, Phil Macdonald, National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 128:The port town of Suao in Ilan County is the gateway to the east coast of Taiwan.
** 2005 July 18, “Typhoon Haitang lashes northeastern Taiwan”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-19, ASIA PACIFIC‎:Heavy waves endangered ports at Hualien and Suao, about 70 kilometers (44 miles) to the north, and flooding threatened low-lying areas along the coast.
** 2018 April 13, “Taiwan president watches naval drill as China tensions grow”, in France 24‎, archived from the original on 09 November 2020:Tsai boarded the Kee Lung destroyer to supervise as troops practised defending against an attack on the northeastern port of Suao.
** 2020 December 15, Ann Wang, “Taiwan sees role as arms supplier for West as launches new warship”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 02 April 2022:Speaking in the eastern port city of Suao for the launch of the Ta Chiang, the first mass production ship of the Tuo Chiang-class, Tsai said the vessel and the new minelayer would deter attacks and showcased Taiwan's research and development ability.
** 2021 September 9, Johnson Lai, “Taiwan’s president commissions domestic-made naval warship”, in AP News‎, archived from the original on 09 September 2021:Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, third from right, takes group photo with officers during the commissioning ceremony of the domestically made Ta Jiang warship at the Suao naval base in Yilan county, Taiwan, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021.
** 2022 May, “2021 Annual Report of the Control Yuan”, in Control Yuan‎, →ISBN, archived from the original on 29 June 2022, page 41:The NHRC conducted onsite inspections of Chienchen and Suao Fishing Harbors and held numerous seminars with industry, government, and academia representatives.
** 2022 May 12, Minnie Chan, “Satellite images ‘suggest China is practising missile strikes on targets in Taiwan and Guam’”, in South China Morning Post‎, archived from the original on 12 May 2022:Suao is a strategic port designed to keep Taiwan’s access to maritime supply chains open in times of war, so Koh said it would also be priority targets of the PLA missiles.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Suao.

#### Usage notes

In the context of Hanyu Pinyin, Suao can be considered a misspelling of Su'ao. In theory, a syllable-dividing mark (隔音符號／隔音符号 (géyīn fúhào)) should be added before a non-initial syllable beginning with a, o, or e. Hence, Suao is not allowed since a word made up of su and ao would be spelled as Su'ao (cf. Su'ao) and a word made up of su, a and o would be spelled as Su'a'o. In practice, syllable-dividing marks are often added or omitted at will.

#### Translations
### Further reading

* Suao, Su-ao, Su'ao at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
* Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Suao”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3038, column 2