Hua-lien
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 花蓮 (Huālián) Wade–Giles romanization: Hua¹-lien².
Senses: examples: text: The government-operated railway system, also developed originally by the Japanese, extends for 608 mi. (979 km.), chiefly on the western plain; most trackage is Cape-gauge (three feet six inches), but the 109-mi. (176 km.) east-coast line between T'ai-tung and Hua-lien is two feet six inches gauge.
ref: 1968, N. S. G., “FORMOSA”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 9, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 630, column 1:
text: East of the Chung-yang is narrow valley, created by a geological fault and running from Hua-lien to Tai-tung in the south.
ref: 1983, Charles Sheffield, Man on Earth, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 104:
text: On March 2, in Hua-lien city on the east coast, the district chief, Chang Wen-ch’eng, notified all organ heads and local leaders to meet at 2:00 P.M. to discuss how to prevent an uprising.
ref: 1991, Tse-han Lai, Ramon H. Myers, Wei Wou, “The Uprising”, in A Tragic Beginning: The Taiwan Uprising of February 28, 1947, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 131:
text: I first met the mother of Yang Mu in Hua-lien, Taiwan, in 1978.
ref: 1993, Joseph R. Allen, “Yang Mu and Lo Ch'ing: A Profile”, in Forbidden Games & Video Poems, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 11:
text: This is the least inhabited part of Taiwan, with the exception of two cities along the coast: Hua-lien, in the north, and T'ai-tung, in the south.
ref: 2001, Robert Green, Taiwan, Lucent Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 14:
text: As for controversial public works, such as the highway between Su-ao and Hua-lien, he promised to respect the results of environmental reports.
ref: 2017, Shing-yuan Sheng, Hsiao-chuan (Mandy) Liao, “Issues, Political Cleavages, and Party Competition”, in Christopher H. Achen, T. Y. Wang, editors, The Taiwan Voter, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 112:
text: Rev McCall remarked that missionary Robert Donnell McCall, his brother-in-law, loved the beautiful lands and the aboriginal people of eastern Taiwan so much that half of his ashes was bid to bury at the cemetery of Kuan-fu Presbyterian Church at Hua-lien after he retired and died at US.
ref: 2017 October 11, Yi-yin Lin, “PCT Hua-Lien Aboriginal Student Center Launches A Rebuilding Project Supported By ASPM”, in Peter Wolfe, transl., Taiwan Church News [台灣教會公報社], archived from the original on 18 Oct 2021, Mission Services:
english: 台灣教會公報社
translation: 台灣教會公報社
text: A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck on Taiwan’s east coast about 17 km (10 miles) north-northeast of Hua-lien, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
ref: 2018 February 4, Adrian Croft, “Magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes off Taiwan, no damage reported”, in Jason Neely, Mark Heinrich, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2018, World News:
text: In 2010 we conducted a survey on Xylaria species at a backyard of a residence in Hua-lien located in eastern Taiwan, where a nesting site of O. formosanus had previously been inundated following a heavy rain, and numerous Xylaria stromata kept emerging from the nesting site after termite activities had ceased.
ref: 2020 April 6, Huei-Mei Hsieh, Jyh-Ching Chou, Yu-Ming Ju, “Xylaria insolita and X. subescharoidea: two newly described species collected from a termite nesting site in Hua-lien, Taiwan”, in Botanical Studies, volume 61, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1 of 9:
text: YHB Ocean Bomb harvests some of the purest drinking water in the world, while conserving land by extracting deep ocean water from Taiwan's Eastern Port Hua-lien.
ref: 2021 August 18, “The perfect summer drink with the Tokyo Olympics 2020 Ambassador Ocean Bomb Orange feat. Son Goku”, in Karman Foods, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2021:
text: The Hua-lien Fire Department is urging people not to call the emergency number 119 for reasons other than asking for help or disasters.
ref: 2023 July 11, JL, “Hualien Fire Department: Don't call 119 to chat”, in International Community Radio Taipei, archived from the original on 13 Jul 2023, Realtime News:
glosses: Alternative form of Hualien (city)