# 西港
## Chinese

* 西港 (Written Standard Chinese)
* 西港區 (Cantonese)
* Sî-kóng-khî (Hakka)
* Sai-káng (Southern Min)

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): Xīgǎng
    (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ ㄍㄤˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): sai$^1$ gong$^2$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Sai-káng
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: Xīgǎng
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ ㄍㄤˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: Sigǎng
*** Wade–Giles: Hsi$^1$-kang$^3$
*** Yale: Syī-gǎng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shigaang
*** Palladius: Сиган (Sigan)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi⁵⁵ kɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: sai$^1$ gong$^2$
*** Yale: sāi góng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: sai$^1$ gong$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: sei$^1$ gong$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /sɐi̯⁵⁵ kɔːŋ³⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sai-káng
*** Tâi-lô: Sai-káng
*** Phofsit Daibuun: sai'karng
*** IPA (Xiamen): /sai⁴⁴⁻²² kaŋ⁵³/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /sai³³ kaŋ⁵⁵⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /sai⁴⁴⁻²² kaŋ⁵³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /sai⁴⁴⁻³³ kaŋ⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /sai⁴⁴⁻³³ kaŋ⁴¹/

### Proper noun

西港
* (～區) Sigang (a district of Tainan, Taiwan)
    From: 9 June 2018, Tainan Sigang Qingan Temple: The burning of the King Boat 慶安宮香科醮典　送王船圓滿落幕, Taipei Times, 楊金城, Chang Ho-ming 章厚明, trans.
    Táinán Xīgǎng Qìng'ān Gōng jīnnián de yìxiāng huódòng, yú zhōuyī jǔxíng yāzhóu de “sòng wáng” shāowángchuán yíshì, xuāngào jiào diǎn yuánmǎn wánchéng. [Pinyin]
    The "kuah hsiunn" (刈香) ceremonies, held by Qingan Temple in Tainan’s Sigang District this year, concluded on Monday with the sending off of the wangye by burning the King Boat.
    From: 2005, New Artery From The Air in Taiwan: Aerial Photography of Second Freeway 飛閱台灣新動脈:第二高速公路空中攝影專輯(再版), Chiu Shih-Sheng 邱士生, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 261
    Xīnjí Jiāoliúdào 87 02 Xīnjí Jiāoliúdào, wèiyú Āndìng Xiāng Xīnjí Cūn, zhǔyào fúwù Āndìng Xiāng, Xīgǎng Xiāng jí Táinán Shì Ānnán Qū. [Pinyin]
    Sinji Interchange 1998 02 Located at Sinji Village in Anding Township, the Sinji Interchange primarily serves Anding and Sigang townships and the Annan District of Tainan City.
* Short for 西哈努克港 (“Sihanoukville”).
** 2020 January 2, zh:換日線 Crossing, 柬埔寨禁網路賭博後，中國淘金客蜂擁而至的「西港」，徒剩滿地垃圾與停工建案 (Once Flocked with Chinese Investors, Sihanoukville was Left with Garbage and Unfinished Construction Projects After Cambodia Banned Internet Gambling)‎:
       Lìngwài gēnjù hángkōngyè suǒ gěi de shùjù, zài 2014 nián xīgǎng bìng méiyǒu kāiqǐ hé qítā guójiā zhǔyào chéngshì zhíháng de hángxiàn, qiě zàofǎng rénshù bùzú 10 wàn rén, dào 2018 nián wánquán biàn le yīge yàng, chúle zàofǎng rénshù tūpò 100 wàn réncì, yě hé zhōngguó gè dà chéngshì hé hángkōngyè zhě kāituò le wèi shù jīngrén de zhíháng hángxiàn, xiǎnshì xīgǎng de tóuzī xīyǐnlì. [Pinyin]
       Also according to data from the aviation industry, Sihanoukville has no direct flights to major cities in other countries in 2014, and has less than 100 thousand people visited the city. In 2018 it dramatically changed. Apart from the number of visitors breaking 1 million, Sihanoukville also opened a astonishing amount of direct flight routes to major Chinese cities with aviation industry, showing the attractiveness of Sihanoukville in investment.

#### Descendants

* → English: Hsi-kang, Sigang, Xigang