Zuojhen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌ(d)zwoʊˈd͡ʒʌn/
enpr: dzôʹjǔnʹ
Forms: form: Tsochen
form: Tso-chen
form: Zuozhen
Etymology: From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 左鎮 (Zuǒjhèn).
Senses: examples: text: 「貝殼之美」特展近日至九月二十三日於左鎮菜寮化石館展出，[…]
ref: 2012 June 20, Meng-ting Lin, “World’s largest seashell on display at Tsailiao Fossil Museum [世界最大貝殼 菜寮化石館展出]”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2012, Bilingual Pages, page 11:
english: 世界最大貝殼 菜寮化石館展出
translation: 世界最大貝殼 菜寮化石館展出
text: In addition, a group of ice shops in downtown Tainan and the districts of Danei, Yujing and Zuojhen will start selling deserts made using mango so consumers can enjoy fresh mango ice products during the hot summer days.
ref: 2017, Yang Shu-min, Frances Huang, “Taiwan's mango exports to set new record in 2017”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2017:
text: AG7 is located on the eastern side of Zuojhen Fault in western foothills. Zuojhen Fault is a left-lateral fault lying in the northwest-southeast direction across the township^([sic – meaning district]) of Zuojhen.
ref: 2017, Ricky Kao, Cheinway Hwang, Jeong Woo Kim, Kuo-En Ching, Frédéric Masson, Wen-Chi Hsieh, Nicolas Le Moigne, Ching-Chung Cheng, “Absolute gravity change in Taiwan: Present result of geodynamic process investigation”, in Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, →DOI, page 857:
text: The empowerment team kept emphasizing that this is the first voluntary team of this kind in the country and therefore spur their sense of honor. As people had to go to Zuojhen District from Yujing and the day of workshop bumped into busy farming seasons, participants of the forth workshop were fewer.
ref: 2018, Chaohsing Huang, Chipang Lu, Yishan Chen, “Involving Community Volunteers in Recording Deterioration of Buildings After Disaster”, in Asian Education Studies, volume 3, number 3, →DOI, page 31:
text: In 1972, fragmentary fossils of anatomically modern humans were found at Chouqu and Gangzilin, in Zuojhen District, Tainan, in fossil beds exposed by erosion of the Cailiao River.
ref: 2019, Ahmed Sayeed, Negate Fighting Faith, Chhattisgarh, India: Sankalp Publications, →ISBN, pages 101–102:
text: 在左鎮這邊已經很少會有這麼熱鬧的地方，可是我發現來的時候有塞車，然後周邊沒有很好的停車位，[…]
ref: 2019 May 13, M. Chuang, “Complaints Roll In on Fossil Park Opening Day [台南左鎮化石園區 開幕人潮破萬]”, in Public Television Service, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2023:
english: 台南左鎮化石園區 開幕人潮破萬
translation: 台南左鎮化石園區 開幕人潮破萬
text: The move is part of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications’ push to increase the commercial use of drones, the institute said, adding that the postal company previously tested UAVs for mail delivery in Tainan’s Zuojhen District (左鎮) and on Alishan.
In Tainan, the drones carried 5kg shipments of peaches from farms in the district to the Zuojhen Post Office, cutting what is typically a 90-minute truck route to 15 minutes, it said.
ref: 2020 November 23, Yu-hsin Hsiao, William Hetherington, “Chunghwa to trial delivery by UAV”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2020, Taiwan News, page 3:
text: A woman holds a large bamboo shoot in Tainan’s Zuojhen District yesterday. The district office is to launch a campaign to promote the consumption of the bamboo shoot this summer.
ref: 2025 June 12, “Big shot”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2025, Taiwan News, page 3:
glosses: A district of Tainan, Taiwan, formerly a rural township.