# Chiku
## English
### Etymology

From Mandarin 七股 (Qīgǔ), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻi¹-ku³.

### Proper noun

Chiku
* Alternative form of Cigu
** 1957, Narrative Industrial Program Progress Report; Project-Type Assistance‎, page 72:The project is located at Putai, and Chiku, Tainan Hsien.
** 1973 May 27, “Output of salt hiked”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly]‎, volume XIV, number 20, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 3:The spokesman said the rest will be produced at newly developed salt fields at Chiku near Chiayi in south Taiwan.
** 1993, 中國人與動物 [Animals and the Chinese]‎, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 139:Even if all 600 hectares could be sold off, the income of NT$600 million estimated by the county government would amount to no more than half the annual budge of Tainan County, "and for that you want to sell out our heritage?" wonders Mr. Li, a teacher and resident of Tainan County who grew up by the mouth of the Tsengwen River. […] As they see it, the environmental impact report "is just a matter of compiling the data; if we do it a few more times it will pass," in the words of Chiku township assemblyman Chen Ming-lai.
** 2006, W.Y. Chiau, “Lagoon Management and Black-faced Spoonbill Conservation: Issues and Challenges in the Greater Chiku Area, Taiwan”, in Journal of Coastal Research‎, volume II, number 39, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 914, column 1:A policy of no net loss for fish ponds, salt ponds, and other potential habitats, including the Chiku Area, should be immediately adopted by Tainan City, Tainan County as well as the Taiwan Salt Company.
** 2010 October 28, “Tainan County: More than 300 endangered spoonbills sighted in Tainan”, in Taiwan News‎, archived from the original on 04 October 2022‎:Black-faced spoonbills are pictured in Tainan County's Chiku Township in this October 2009 file photo.
** 2015 October 2, “"Friendly Taiwan - foreign student homestay development program" is full of goodwill: 26 students travelled to explore the beauty of Langshan in Chiku District.”, in Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology‎, archived from the original on 15 October 2022‎:Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, sponsored by the Ministry of Education organized "Friendly Taiwan - foreign student homestay development program," in cooperation with Longsan community in Chiku District, Tainan.
** 2016 October 20, Phillip Charlier, “Flamingos Appear in Taiwan: Birdwatchers Flock to Tainan”, in Taiwan English News‎, archived from the original on 20 January 2021‎:A pair of greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) has reappeared at a wetlands in Chiku, Tainan, attracting photographers and birdwatchers.
** 2020 December 18, Steven Crook, “Highways and Byways: Disappeared sea and a side trip to hell”, in Taipei Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 September 2022, Features, page 13‎:If you’ve read a bit about the history of Tainan, you’ll have heard of Taijiang Inner Sea (臺江內海). Hundreds of years ago, when southern Taiwan’s coastline wasn’t as far west as it is now, this lagoon covered much of present-day Annan (安南) and Chiku (七股) districts. […] The area navigable by anything other than a raft gradually shrank, and parts of the inland sea were converted into fish farms. Chiku Lagoon (七股潟湖) is the largest remnant waterbody of the inland sea. Much of the rest has been filled in and built on.
** 2021, Chih-Jan (黃稚然) Huang, 濕地保育政策之研究－以臺南七股為例 [Research on Wetland Conservation Policy- the Chiku case in Tainan City of Taiwan]‎, National Cheng Kung University, archived from the original on 01 October 2022:There was not enough environmental impact assessment while implementing solar energy at Chiku wetland. In addition, there was no communication platform for wetland conservation. Furthermore, recently, Chiku district began to develop the project for Solar Sharing. There was little regulation on solar energy development in terms of wetland policy.
** 2022 July 22, “KSS, Keep it Simple & Safe”, in 中經社外貿網 [CENS]‎, archived from the original on 25 September 2022‎:KSS has recently set up its global business operational base in the Duchia Industrial Zone in Chiku District, Tainan City, southern Taiwan, which covers some 1.8 million square feet and includes a modern plant boasting fully-automated production lines, with the most advanced, computer-controlled injection and extrusion machines to produce 1,000-plus kinds of products.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chiku.