# Chienchin
## English
### Etymology

From Mandarin 前金 (Qiánjīn), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻien²-chin¹.

### Proper noun

Chienchin
* Alternative form of Cianjin
** 1994 May 26 [1994 May 23], “Police Seize 10,000 Ivory Items”, in Daily Report: China‎, numbers 94-102, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 69, column 2‎:In the afternoon, the Executive Yuan's Wildlife Protection Group and the police, acting on the tip, went to the Hsiangyacheng herbal medicine shop on Chengkung First Road in Chienchin District, Kaohsiung city, to crack down on the illegal trade.
** 2005 July, “AN OVERVIEW OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF KAOHSIUNG CITY GOVERNMENT 2004”, in KAOHSIUNG CITY GOVERNMENT‎, archived from the original on 06 October 2022, page 434:On May 1, 2003 Bureau of Environment Protection continued to implement the franchised garbage collection in Chienchin and Yencheng Districts.
** 2006 November 3, Jenny W. Hsu, “Military man diagnosed with dengue fever”, in Taiwan News‎, archived from the original on 24 September 2022‎:CDC Deputy Director Chou Jih-haw said the man, who has been doing his military service in Taipei City since the beginning of summer, was likely to have been affected when he went home to the Chienchin District of Kaohsiung City last month between the 12th and 25th. He also reportedly visited Fengshan in Kaohsiung County.
** 2006 December 8, Flora Wang, “Elections 2006: Lo Chih-ming sees himself as Kaohsiung's CEO mayor”, in Taipei Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 December 2007, Taiwan News, page 3‎:He also wants to help the city's Chienchin District, its financial heart, bring in more profits by applying "creativity and marketing strategies," and plans to connect Hsitzuwan Beach, Love River and Chaushan to create a touring route amplifying Kaohsiung's "maritime culture."
** 2008 December 18, “Ex-officio investigation by the Fair Trade Commission into Kaohsiung City Medical Association's restriction that members of primary care clinic must not see patients every other Sunday, in violation of the Fair Trade Law”, in Fair Trade Commission‎, archived from the original on 24 September 2022‎:In early 2002, Kaohsiung City Medical Association (the respondent), in an official letter drafted by Disciplinary Committee Director Chen Si-Chuan and sent to members in the name of association Chairman Hsiao Chi-wen, notified members that beginning in February 2002 on a trial basis, primary care clinics in the association's northern and southern jurisdiction would begin a rotating holiday system on Sundays, with those clinics in the southern jurisdiction (the city's Hsinhsing, Lingya, Hsiaokang, Chienchin and Chienchen districts) closing on those Sundays falling on even-numbered dates and those clinics in the northern jurisdiction (the city's Sanmin, Tsoying, Nantze, Chichin, Kushan and Yencheng districts) closing on those Sunday falling on odd-numbered dates.
** 2018, “The Formosa Catholic Mission, 1626-1895”, in The Catholic Church in Taiwan: Birth, Growth and Development‎, Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29:In this way the community of Qianjin (Chienchin) in Dagou (Kaohsiung) was created, with a big church according to the style of a huge Chinese house, surrounded by other building for an orphanage, residents, catechists and others.
** 2020 November 1, Cheng Ying-ying et al., “EFL in Senior High Schools: The Case of Taiwan”, in LACUS Forum‎, volume 41, Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24:4.10 OBSERVATION 10. The last observation was of an all-girls general SHS in the Chienchin District. It is considered the best high school in the city for girls. This general class had 48 students.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chienchin.

### Further reading

* Chienchin, Chien-chin, Ch'ien-chin at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.