Ren-ai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Renai
form: Ren'ai
form: Jenai
Etymology: From Mandarin 仁愛 (Rén'ài).
Senses: examples: text: Located in Ren-ai Township, Nantou County, the Rueiyan Nature Reserve encompasses approximately 1,450 hectares. It is located at elevations of 1,210~3,416 meters, and has an annual rainfall of roughly 3,000~4,000 mm.
ref: 2005, “Central Taiwan”, in Daniel Pickren Chamberlin, Chiung-Fen Wang, transl., Birdwatching in Taiwan, Taipei: Wild Bird Society of Taipei, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 105:
text: The Sediq 賽德克 were officially recognized as one of Taiwan's indigenous peoples in 2008. Numbering about 7,100, they are mostly concentrated in Nantou County's 南投縣 Ren-ai Township 仁愛鄉.
ref: 2011, “People and Language”, in The Republic of China Yearbook 2011, New Taipei: Government Information Office, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 32, column 1:
text: The Ching Jing area had experienced a water shortage issue during the drought period in Ren-ai Township and finally found a resolution. The two large reservoirs were completed and built by the county government after its construction.
ref: 2016 March 17, “Ching Jing No Longer Lacks Water County Mayor Launched Two Large Reservoirs”, in Nantou County Government [南投縣政府], archived from the original on 01 Sep 2024:
english: 南投縣政府
translation: 南投縣政府
text: The Nantou County Government used the cantilever construction method to overcome the barrier in the last 800-meter section of the Nantou Township 70 Road to connect Chilin Village of Puli Township and Chungcheng Village of Ren-ai Township.[…]Also, with the dedication of the Department of Public Works of Nantou County Government, the Indigenous Peoples Bureau, the team of Ren-ai Township Office and the construction companies that were in charge of the construction, design, supervision and implementation, the best quality of the project was achieved, and the schedule was met efficiently.
ref: 2021 February 23, “The cantilever Nantou Township 70 Road wins the Golden Quality Award and opens to traffic after widening for disaster prevention, January 5”, in Nantou County Government [南投縣政府], archived from the original on 01 Sep 2024:
english: 南投縣政府
translation: 南投縣政府
text: Ren-ai Township Household Registration Office, Nantou County
ref: n.d., Ren-ai Township Household Registration Office, Nantou County [南投縣仁愛鄉戶政事務所], archived from the original on 21 Jun 2021:
english: 南投縣仁愛鄉戶政事務所
translation: 南投縣仁愛鄉戶政事務所
text: Local people call their community 'the closest community to the God'. Cinsbu is also the earliest known community in Hbun-Tunan. Traditions relate how Tayal ancestors migrated north from Ren-ai Township, Nantou County. They went through Sihyuan Wind Gap, the Ridge of Dabajian Mountain, Sinaiji Mountain, Hbun-Tunan and finally arrived in Cinsbu.
ref: 2023, Ai-Ching Yen, Yin-An Chen, “Collective Action for Sustainable Development: A case study of a Tayal Indigenous community in Taiwan”, in Paul D'Arcy, Daya Dakasi Da-Wei Kuan, editors, Islands of Hope: Indigenous Resource Management in a Changing Pacific (Pacific Series), Australian National University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 287–288:
text: Ren-ai Township Nantou County
ref: n.d., Ren-ai Township Nantou County [仁愛鄉公所], archived from the original on 01 Mar 2023:
english: 仁愛鄉公所
translation: 仁愛鄉公所
text: Engineers work on fixing a section of Provincial No. 14 in Nantou's Ren-ai Township Monday. The cracks in the road appeared that day, due to heavy rain caused by Typhoon Khanun and southwesterly winds.
ref: 2023 August 7, “Rain damage”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2024, Photos of the Day:
glosses: A mountain indigenous township in Nantou County, Taiwan.