Chiahsien
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 甲仙 (Jiǎxiān), Wade–Giles romanization: Chia³-hsien¹.
Senses: examples: text: Once back on the main road at Laonung, climb another steep grade and drop into Chiahsien for the evening.[…]
Chiahsien is famous for its taro-root products. There are shops up and down the main street that sell taro candy, taro ice cream, and sweet taro soup.
ref: 1994, Roger Grigsby, “Tour No. 2, Taiwan: A Southern Island Tour—Tailuko to Touliu”, in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China's East Coast (China by Bike), The Mountaineers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107:
text: Just beyond Liukuei, the road continues north until it meets up with the South Cross-Island Highway at Chiahsien.
ref: 1998, Robert Storey, “South-West Taiwan”, in Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 4th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 274, column 2:
text: The total number of votes won by the Chen-Lu ticket was 4,977,697, according to the CEC. CEC Chairman Huang Shih-cheng (黃石城) said his commission decided to post the name of the elected candidates as scheduled, because it was sure the result of the presidential vote had not been affected by a counting error that occurred at a polling center in Chiahsien township (甲仙鄉), Kaohsiung County, nor by another incident of ballot mismanagement which took place in Tainan.
ref: 2000 March 26, Stephanie Low, “It's official: Chen-Lu won by a nose, CEC announces”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2023, Local News, page 3:
text: The tremor hit at 4:17am, with its epicenter 16km south of Chiahsien in Kaohsiung County and 6.9 kilometers underground, according to the Seismology Center.
ref: 2004 May 9, “Taiwan Quick Take”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2004, Taiwan News, page 3:
text: The 6.4 earthquake which hit Chiahsien in Kaohsiung County Thursday morning led to a suspension of services between Taichung and Kaohsiung and to a wave of complaints about the company’s treatment of passengers in the aftermath.
ref: 2010 March 7, “Taiwan high speed rail to return to normal Tuesday after quake disruptions”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2022:
text: Xiaolin village is located in the northeast of Chiahsien Township, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan (Fig. 1).
ref: 2013, Su-Chin Chen et al., “Catastrophic Deep-Seated Landslide at Xiaolin Village in Taiwan Induced by 2009.8.9 Typhoon Morakot”, in Progress of Geo-Disaster Mitigation Technology in Asia, Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 402:
text: The E-Da World Mall, known for its New Year’s firework displays, which some say rivals the annual display put by Taipei 101, ranked fourth, while the Chiahsien District (甲仙), which was ravaged by Typhoon Morakot in 2009, came in at fifth place after the release of a documentary film — A Bridge over Troubled Water (拔一條河).
ref: 2013 October 9, Chen Wen-chan, Jake Chung, “Glory Pier tops Kaohsiung’s list of city hotspots”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2022, Taiwan News, page 3:
text: The most catastrophic damage occurred in Siaolin, Chiahsien township and Nansalu village, Namasia township.
ref: 2017, Michiko Banba, Rajib Shaw, Land Use Management in Disaster Risk Reduction: Practice and Cases from a Global Perspective, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 275:
text: A remarkable paleoseep remnant is located in the Chiahsien District, southeastern Taiwan. It is preserved in the foreland basin sequence within the southern part of WFZ (Fig. 1).
ref: 2018 August, Chih-Wei Chien et al., “Calcareous and agglutinated foraminifera ratio: Chemical interface tracer for Pliocene Chiahsien Paleoseep, SW Taiwan”, in Terrestrial, Atmospheric, and Oceanic Sciences, volume 29, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 419, column 1:
text: (2) A good number of buses depart from Kaohsiung railway station. Take one that heads for Chishan, Meinung [Meinong], Chiahsien [Jiaxian] or Liukuei [Liugui]. Transfer at Chishan to Tainan Metro Bus and get off at the Kaohsiung Campus.
ref: 2020, “110 學年度外國學生申請入學招生簡章 [2021-2022 Admission Brochure for International Students]”, in Shih Chien University, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2022, page 42:
english: 2021-2022 Admission Brochure for International Students
translation: 2021-2022 Admission Brochure for International Students
text: The carbonates studied in this paper occur as chimneys or lenses within the shale of Early Pliocene, the Yanshuikeng Formation, exposed at Chiahsien, southwestern Taiwan.
ref: 2021, Zhao Ruosi et al., “Geochemical characteristics of the Early Pliocene cold seep dolomite at Chiahsien, Taiwan and their implications for fluid sources and sedimentary environment”, in Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology, volume 41, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: The Taiwan Ciaotou District Court is responsible for judicial cases in the following districts: Ciaotou, Zuoying, Nanzi, Dashu, Niaosong, Renwu, Dashe, Gangshan, Yanchao, Yongan, Mituo, Zigong, Luzu, Alian, Hunei, Cheting, Tianliao, Chishan, Meinong, Neimen, Chiahsien, Shanlin, Liouguei, Namasia, Taoyuan, and Maolin.
ref: 2021 April 27, “This court ’s history and jurisdiction over litigation”, in 臺灣橋頭地方法院 [Taiwan Ciaotou District Court], archived from the original on 15 Jul 2022:
english: Taiwan Ciaotou District Court
translation: Taiwan Ciaotou District Court
glosses: Alternative form of Jiasian.