Chaojhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 潮州 (Cháozhōu) Tongyong Pinyin romanization: Cháojhou.
Senses: examples: text: Born in 1866 in Pingdong County in the south of the island, Lin became an outlaw after a brief stint as a Qing dynasty official, but after the Japanese invasion in 1895 he used his bandit experience to organize guerrilla resistance. This culminated in successful attacks on Donggang in 1897, and Chaojhou in 1898 with an army of two thousand that included Paiwan and Hakka troops as well as Taiwanese.
ref: 2007, Stephen Keeling, Brice Minnigh, The Rough Guide to Taiwan (Rough Guides), Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 510:
text: LEE ANG (b. 195 Lee Ang (known in the West as Ang Lee) was born in Chaojhou in southern Taiwan.
ref: 2008, Alison Behnke, “For More Information”, in Taiwan in Pictures (Visual Geography Series), Twenty-First Century Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 71:
text: The company on Nov. 3 last year asked an employee surnamed Tai (戴) to deliver 10 barrels of silane — a flammable alkaline substance — from Pingtung County’s Chaojhou Township (潮州) to Sinyuan Township (新園) without telling him what the cargo would be, Tseng said at a news conference on behalf of Tai, adding that the company did not even have a license to deliver the dangerous substance.
ref: 2017 November 7, Lin Chia-nan, “Kerry logistics accused of work-related injury cover-up”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2017, Taiwan News, page 3:
text: Agricultural authorities said that the 'Godzilla-like' reptiles have mainly been found in Pingtung City, Wandan Township, Zhutian Township, Linluo Township, Chaojhou Township, and Jiuru Township.[…]
People who try to catch the reptiles themselves are advised to watch out for their tails, which they use to attack, and to avoid being bitten, the department said. It went on to advise that those who catch green iguanas measuring 20 centimeters in length should bring them to Pingtung County Bureau of Fire and Emergency Service’s Pingtung and Chaojhou branches to exchange them for agricultural produce.
ref: 2020 October 25, George Liao, “Green iguanas continue to wreak havoc in southern Taiwan”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2025, Environment:
text: Chaojhou Township Office Chief Secretary Wang Chien-yuan (王建元) said the scenic Silin Green Tunnel used to be part of a network of sugar railroads on the Pingtung Plain during the era of Japanese rule.
ref: 2021 April 25, George Liao, “Tree-lined country road in southern Taiwan becomes popular destination”, in Taiwan News, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2021, Travel & Cuisine:
text: Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) on Tuesday said that the government is assessing the possibility of extending the high-speed rail line from Kaohsiung’s Tsoying District (左營) to Pingtung County’s Chaojhou Township (潮州).
ref: 2021 October 28, Shelley Shan, “Wang defends his high-speed rail network idea”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Oct 2021, Taiwan News, page 2:
text: At the new Kaohsiung Railway Workshop Depot, which was relocated to Pingtung’s Chaojhou Township (潮州), only 18 workers are needed to service a train within just 40 minutes, Su said.
ref: 2022 June 19, Jake Chung, “Name of new TRA depot must reflect location: Su”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2022, Taiwan News, page 2:
text: To help Gou’s petition campaign reach the necessary threshold to run as a candidate in last year’s presidential election, Chou paid Chaojhou Township (潮州) Mayor Chou Pin-chuan (周品全) NT$1.5 million on Sept. 1, 2023, and NT$3.5 million on Sept. 18, 2023, to buy signatures, the Pingtung District Prosecutors’ Office said.[…]
Chou Pin-chuan then gave NT$4.5 million of the NT$5 million to Chen Liang-yuan (陳亮源), an employee of the Chaojhou Township Office, and others to recruit people to sign the petition, prosecutors said.
ref: 2025 April 22, Pao Chien-hsin, Lery Hiciano, “Pingtung speaker’s vote-buying sentence shortened”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2025, Taiwan News, page 2:
glosses: Alternative form of Chaozhou.