Cishan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: tsûʹshänʹ
rhymes: -æn
rhymes: -ɑːn
enpr: chēʹshänʹ
homophone: Qishan
enpr: tsûʹshänʹ
rhymes: -æn
rhymes: -ɑːn
Forms: form: Ch'i-shan
form: Chishan
form: Qishan
Etymology: From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 旗山 (Císhan).
Senses: examples: text: Taiwan Red Cross members escort rescued residents who were trapped following Typhoon Morakot, to receive medical care in Cishan, Taiwan, 12 August 2009. Taiwan soldiers on 12 August found 70 more survivors from a village buried by a mudslide, bringing to 1,000 the number of people found alive in mountain region affected by landslides in the southern county of Kaohsiung.
ref: 2009 August 9, “Typhoon slams Taiwan, China, Japan”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 21 Dec 2021:
text: In Cishan, a storm-ravaged town of 41,000, both road bridges had collapsed, smashing houses and taking down cars. Residents jammed a footbridge which remained standing.
ref: 2009 August 14, “Taiwan leader says more than 500 dead in typhoon”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2023, World News:
text: The trail runs relatively wide and flat most of the way, skirting the northern slopes of the deep, V-shaped Cishan River (旗山溪) valley.
ref: 2014, Robert Kelly, Chung Wah Chow, Taiwan, 9th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 206:
text: We gathered 500 turmeric buds from Cishan District of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan in February 2008.
ref: 2014, KaiHsun Hsieh, Wu YongPei, Lin SuJu, “Investigation of the functional compositions of turmeric collected from Cishan District of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.”, in Crop, Environment & Bioinformatics, volume 11, number 3, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: “Bike to Remember” is a cycling event in Cishan District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan and has been held for 5 times already. The event is created in memory a typhoon that destroyed a great part of this area. Although the area has now been rebuilt the organizers wanted later generations to know about the disaster and they encouraged participants to write a brief ‘feeling’ paragraph on Facebook after the competitive activity had finished.
ref: 2015, A Fotiadis, C Vassiliadis, SP Yeh, “Participant’s preferences for small-scale sporting events: a comparative analysis of a Greek and a Taiwanese cycling event”, in EuroMed Journal of Business, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
text: Taiwan has confirmed the country's first case of the highly pathogenic H5N5 strain of avian influenza on a duck farm in Cishan District, Kaohsiung, Council of Agriculture (COA) Deputy Minister Huang Chin-cheng (黃金城) said Monday.
ref: 2019, Yang Su-min, Evelyn Kao, “Taiwan reports first-ever H5N5 avian influenza case”, in Focus Taiwan:
text: They now have more sewing machines than technicians, so they plan to allow residents from Cishan and Meinong to use them in training programs.
ref: 2019, Chen Ting-fang, “Da-ai Sewing Workshop”, in Hou Ya-ting, transl., Love Kaohsiung 愛·高雄, number 4, page 6:
text: Tu talked about his connections in the Kaohsiung area, and agreed to recruit people in Taiwan’s armed forces to gain access to confidential military material in exchange for money, prosecutors said.
Tu recruited retired sergeant major Wang Jui-chi (王瑞祺), who was in charge of an ammunition depot in Kaohsiung’s Cishan District (旗山) while he was in the Army Logistics Command, they said.
Tu introduced Wang to the Chinese officials and Dong gave Tu cash to give to Wang, they said.
ref: 2020, Jason Pan, “Supreme Court rejects final spying case appeal”, in Taipei Times:
text: Military points of interest named in the report include the Taiwanese navy's Haifeng Brigade, an ammunition depot in Cishan, located near the southern city of Kaohsiung, Taiwan's Military Police Command headquarters, and the Army Logistics Training Center.
ref: 2022 September 2, Tom O'Connor, “If China Moves to Take Taiwan, Report Sees 3,500 Potential Targets”, in Newsweek, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2022, World:
text: Nansheng Community (南勝社區) in Kaohsiung’s Cishan District (旗山) is one of the few places where there’s been an effort to attract bats, each of which may catch 1,200 mosquitoes per night. Around 70 bat houses were installed across a 1-hectare patch of land, resulting in a noticeable reduction in mosquito numbers, Public Television Service (PTS, 公共電視) reported on July 25, 2019.
ref: 2025 June 11, Steven Crook, “Environmental Impact Assessment: My enemy’s enemy: biocontrol in the face of climate change”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2025, Features, page 12:
glosses: A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Synonyms: Kizan