Nansi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: nänʹsûʹ
nänʹshēʹ
nänʹsûʹ
Forms: form: Nanhsi
form: Nan-hsi
form: Nanxi
Etymology: From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 楠西 (Nánsi, literally “west of Nanzihsian River”).
Senses: examples: text: The vulnerability of Annan, North, West Central, Rende, and Nansi is ranked as secondary high, and the vulnerability of Baihe, Danei, Yujing, and South is intermediate.
ref: 2012, Yu-Chen Lin, Tzong-Yeang Lee, Hung-Chih Shih, “Assessment of the Vulnerability and Risk of Climate Change on Water Supply and Demand in Taijiang Area”, in International Journal of Environmental and Ecological Engineering, volume 6, number 7, →DOI, →OCLC, page 400:
text: Samples from Jhongpu, Fanlu, Nansi and Yuzing show an average tritium concentration of 1.33 TU (Table 4), which is marginally lower than the precipitation of Central Taiwan (1.6 TU)reported by Peng et al. (2007).
ref: 2014, S. Sengupta et al., “Spatial variation of groundwater arsenic distribution in the Chianan Plain, SW Taiwan: Role of local hydrogeological factors and geothermal sources”, in Journal of Hydrology, volume 518, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 401:
text: It's 25km of rolling pitch from the start of the 175 to Nansi.
ref: 2014, Robert Kelly, Chung Wah Chow, Taiwan, 9th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 253:
text: The bold attacks launched by armed insurgents against police stations incurred the wrath of the Japanese authorities and escalated into large-scale conflicts spanning the districts of Nanhua, Nansi, Yujing and Zuozhen.
ref: 2015 June 9, “Tapani Incident centennial marked by Tainan City”, in Taiwan Today, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2020:
text: The Nansi District was formerly known as the "Jiaba Community", and was one of the early territories of the Taivoan, as well as where the Zou resided. Later, due to the invasion of the Siraya tribe, the community members later migrated out to regions such as Gongguan, Paoziliao (Kaohsiung County), and Daciouyuan. During the time of the Japanese occupation, because of its location at the west of the "Nanzihsian River", it was therefore renamed Nansi ("si" meaning "west"). A village and village hall were established here, under the governance of Sinhua District of Tainan Province. After the war in 1945, it was renamed Nansi Township, and was changed to Nansi District after the merging of Tainan City and County on December 25th, 2010.
ref: 2018 August 6, “Brief Introduction of Nansi”, in Nansi District Office, Tainan City, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2022:
text: City government data showed that some districts were inundated with more than 600mm of rain over 24 hours, with Nansi District (楠西) receiving 700mm.
ref: 2018 August 25, “Floods displace more than 1,000”, in Taipei Times, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2018:
text: Department of History student Yun-Pei Lien, who had gone to Nansi Junior High School, admitted that she had previously known nothing about Nansi District.
ref: 2019 December 13, “Exhibition of Achievements of [NCKU BOOKS-ONE CITY] Mobile Library”, in National Cheng Kung University, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2020:
text: Nineteen of the aftershocks — which were concentrated in Tainan’s Nansi (楠西) and Nanhua (南化) districts — exceeded magnitude 4 on the Richter scale, it said.[…]
The Tainan City Government said that the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation had visited Nansi District and provided breakfast for people who have been displaced by the main earthquake.
ref: 2025 January 23, Jake Chung, “More than 70 aftershocks rock Chiayi County and Tainan”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2025, Front Page, page 1:
glosses: A district of Tainan, Taiwan.