# Cidu
## English
### Etymology

From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 七堵 (Cidǔ).

### Proper noun

Cidu
* Alternative form of Qidu
** 2006, Wei-Hsien Teng, Ming-Hsi Hsu, Chung-Hsing Wu, Albert S. Chen, “Impact of Flood Disasters on Taiwan in the Last Quarter Century”, in Natural Hazards‎, volume 37, →DOI, page 7:Respectively, Cidu District and Nuannuan District in Keelung City suffered catastrophic floods, which caused 64 casualties, 65 injured, 25 disappearance and inestimable loss of agriculture, fishery and property.
** 2009, Hung‐Chih Hung, “The attitude towards flood insurance purchase when respondents' preferences are uncertain: a fuzzy approach”, in Journal of Risk Research‎, volume 12, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:The respondents were divided into two groups based on their location to the Keelung River. The first group included 200 completed questionnaire respondents who live in Cidu District (in Keelung City).
** 2009, Lin Jau-Tien et al., “Effect of harvest time on saponins in yam (Dioscorea pseudojaponica Yamamoto)”, in Journal of Food and Drug Analysis‎, volume 17, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 116:The leaves, vines, rhizophores (ca 1 cm in diameter and ca 4 cm in length) and tubers (white cortex and flesh, ca 4 cm in diameter and ca 130 cm in length) of yam plant(D. pseudo japonica Yamamoto) were harvested from the same farm randomly in Cidu District, Keelung City, Taiwan between Nov. 2006 and Mar. 2007.
** 2010 May 20, “Taiwanese probed on suspicion of importing Uzbek surrogate mothers”, in Taiwan News‎, archived from the original on 12 February 2021:Kuo, a doctor who worked at a clinic owned by Shao and located in Cidu, Keelung City, was quite taken with Shao's two blonde children was eager to have one of his own, the police said.
** 2020 October 14, Shelley Shan, “Taipei-Keelung LRRT plan proposed”, in Taipei Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 October 2020, Taiwan News, page 3:Fifth, a proposed extension of the high-speed rail system from Taipei to Yilan would help divert traffic from the TRA system and Chiang Wei-shui Freeway (Freeway No. 5), while expanding rail capacity in the area, they said, adding that it would also facilitate transport between the east and west coasts and address problems caused by a bottleneck in the TRA’s system between New Taipei City’s Shulin District (樹林) and Keelung’s Cidu District (七堵).
** 2023 January 20, “Police reprimanded for attending mob boss birthday party”, in Taipei Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-20, Taiwan News, page 2‎:In the early hours of Tuesday, a member of the public posted a video on a public Facebook group allegedly showing Keelung police officers at a birthday party for the Cidu District (七堵) head of the Heavenly Way Alliance’s (天道盟) Taiyang Hui gang.
** 2024 October 14, “Discolored dose of flu shot found in Keelung: CDC”, in Taipei Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on October 14, 2024, Taiwan News, page 3‎:The Keelung Health Bureau on Saturday reported that one dose of the vaccine manufactured by Adimmune Corp was found to have discoloration before being administered at Cidu District Public Health Center, the CDC said in a news release. […] The Cidu District Public Health Center inspected more than 70 doses from the same batch (FSZA2408) produced by the Taiwan-based vaccine maker, but no others were found to have discoloration, he added.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Cidu.

#### 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 […] 七堵區 Qidu / Qīdǔ / Cidu / Chitu”

### Anagrams

* udic