# Cigu
## English
### Alternative forms

* Ch'i-ku, Chiku (Wade–Giles)
* Qigu (Hanyu Pinyin)

### Etymology

From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 七股 (Cigǔ).

### Pronunciation

* enPR: chēʹgo͞oʹ

### Proper noun

Cigu
* A district of Tainan, Taiwan.
** 2017, Maggie Hiufu Wong, “A new sex park for Taiwan?”, in CNN‎:The proposed route starts at the scenic six-story-high salt hill in Cigu County. It then leads to Beimen, a place famous for its vibrant pre-wedding photo-shooting industry, where "churches" and dozens of other romantic landmarks are built for that purpose.
** 2019, 吳世鴻 [Shih-Hung Wu], 陳建誠 [Jian-Cheng Chen], “七股地區長期鳥類調查資料集 2004-2017 [Dataset of long-term bird census in Cigu, 2004–2017]”, in 台灣生物多樣性研究 (TW J. of Biodivers.)‎, volume 21, number 1, Endemic Species Research Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 December 2020, page 18:Although Taiwan is one of the major habitats in the EAAF for migratory birds, especially waterbirds, long-term bird population data and knowledge about population trends are lacking, except for certain flagship species such as the black-faced spoonbill. Therefore, the members of Taiwan Black-faced Spoonbill Conservation Association voluntarily initiated the Long-Term Bird Census in Cigu (LTBCC) project in 2004. The aims of the LTBCC were to monitor the structure and composition of the avian community, as well as to build the population trends of the flagship and the common species to provide the necessary information for decision-making on the management of the Black-faced Spoonbill Refuge in Cigu District, Tainan City, Taiwan.
** 2019, Chang Jung-hsiang, Frances Huang, “Taipower to build nation's largest solar power facility in Tainan”, in Focus Taiwan‎:Hsu said the new solar energy facility is planned on the salt flats of Cigu District, which have become a popular site for solar energy developers.
** 2019 November 16, “Tainan to present 12 dowry gifts to Lin Chi-ling, groom”, in Taipei Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 November 2019, Taiwan News, page 2‎:The gifts also include sesame oil from Shanhua (善化) and Sigang (西港) districts, salt from Cigu (七股), Dongcheng soy sauce and Chengkung soy sauce from Sinhua (新化), plum vinegar from Nansi (楠西) and white gourd tea bricks from the West Central District (中西區).
** 2020, Jessica J. Lee, Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts‎, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:After nearly two decades of campaigning, political wrangling, and public debate, Taijiang eventually became Taiwan's eighth national park, extending from as far north as the salt pans at Cigu to the southern wetlands at Sicao.
** 2020, Joey Yap, Legendary Chinese Festivals‎, →ISBN:At the end of the contest, all of the contested pigs will be slaughtered and the meat distributed to everyone in attendance as a form of symbolic blessing from Qing Shui Zu Shi Gong. The attendants of this contest in recent years are mostly people from the various Taiwanese clans from the Cigu District 七股.
** 2021 July 2, Angelica Oung, “Cigu solar farm joins nation’s electricity gird”, in Taipei Times‎, archived from the original on 1 July 2021:Taiwan’s largest ground-level solar farm, a 181-megawatt (MW) project in Tainan’s Cigu District (七股), joined the nation’s electricity grid at the end of last month, state-run Taiwan Sugar Co (Taisugar, 台糖) said yesterday.

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ “Taiwan place names”, in Pinyin.info‎, 2006, archived from the original on 2006-10-01‎: “鄉鎮市區別 / Hanyu Pinyin (recommended) / Hanyu Pinyin (with tones) / Tongyong Pinyin / old forms […] 七股鄉 / Qigu / Qīgǔ / Cigu / Chiku”