Tzukuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 梓官 (Zǐguān) Wade–Giles romanization: Tzŭ³-kuan¹.
Senses: examples: text: The associations are in Keelung, Toucheng, Changhua, Chiayi, Penghu, Tzukuan, Tainan City and Tainan county.
ref: 1983 July 17, “President Chiang Concerned About Common Working Man”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XXIV, number 28, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 1:
english: Free China Weekly
translation: Free China Weekly
text: In Taiwan, 2 hepatitis B virus (HBV)- and hepatitis C virus (HCV)-endemic townships, Paisha and Tzukuan, were found with an anti-HCV prevalence of 19 and 37% in men and 26 and 38% in women respectively.
ref: 1998, Tropical Diseases Bulletin, volume 95, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 577:
text: The Kotzuliao fishing harbor at Tzukuan Rural Township has more than four hundred fishing boats.
ref: 2000, The Story of Taiwan, Government Information Office, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 47:
text: Tzukuan Township, located just north of Kaohsiung City in southern Taiwan, was reported to be an HCV-endemic area with the prevalence of 41±6% [22, 23].
ref: 2001, J. F. Huang et al., “Hepatitis C virus infection among teenagers in an endemic township in Taiwan: epidemiological and clinical follow-up studies”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 127, number 3, published 2002, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 486, column 1:
text: County Health Bureau Director Huang Chih-chung (黃志中) said the patient was a middle-aged woman who lives in Tzukuan Township (梓官) and works in Kaohsiung City’s Nanzih District (楠梓).
ref: 2008 July 24, “Kaohsiung County reports first indigenous dengue case”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2008, Taiwan News, page 2:
text: Tzukuan Township in Kaohsiung County was endemic for HBsAg (19.1%, 1,026/5,375 patients), anti-HCV (22.4%, 1,203/5,375 patients), and dual HBsAg/anti-HCV (3.6%, 191/5,375 patients).
ref: 2012, Issues in Discovery, Experimental, and Laboratory Medicine 2011 Edition, ScholarlyEditions, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=j8-MeLZ4YqIC&pg=PT2636:
text: Tzukuan District is located in between Kaohsiung’s Ciaotou, Mituo and Gangshan; its geography is elongated with one side facing the ocean while the other three sides are surrounded by plains.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “About Us”, in Zihguan District Office, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2017:
text: Tzukuan is located in the northern suburbs of Kaohsiung City in southern Taiwan, and it had a population of approximately 36,000 residents in 2018 and 39,000 residents in 2000.
ref: 2022 April 29, Pei-Chien Tsai, “Low disease awareness as a contributing factor to the high prevalence of hepatitis C infection in Tzukuan, a hyperendemic area of southern Taiwan”, in Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, volume 38, number 7, →DOI, →ISSN:
text: In Kaohsiung, the Tzukuan Fisheries Association said only a few boats had gone out Thursday but that was because it was the off-season and the weather conditions were unstable.
ref: 2022 August 4, Chang Chi, Tsai Meng-yu, Tseng Yi-ning, Matt Yu, Evelyn Kao, “Su'ao fishermen estimate NT$50m in losses due to China's military drills”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2022, Cross-Strait:
glosses: Alternative form of Zihguan.