Qieding District
Qieding District () is a coastal suburban district in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Name and pronunciation. Etymology. One theory is that it is named for a type of local mangrove. Another is that it derived from a Makattao aboriginal name, written as "Cattia" or "Cattea" by Europeans, meaning "place of many fish" (literally "ten fish"). This was then rendered as "Ka-tang-tiāⁿ-á" () and "Ka-tiāⁿ-á" () in Taiwanese Hokkien and also "Ka-tiāⁿ" () or "Ka-têng" () with both sets of characters also referring to types of "Avicennia" ("cf". "Avicennia marina", ). Pronunciation and Romanization. Traditionally, the name is pronounced "Ka-tiāⁿ" in  Taiwanese and "Jiādìng" in Mandarin. Following the 1945 handover of Taiwan, the name was romanized as "Chiating" via the Wade-Giles system. The later systems MPS II and Tongyong Pinyin yielded "Jiading", which is seen on street signs and signs on the district office and the local elementary and junior high schools. However outside of Jiading, the pronunciation of "Ciédìng" in Mandarin is common, using an alternate reading of the first Chinese character in the name (). With the adoption of Hanyu Pinyin for Taiwanese place names in 2009, the name was officially rendered as "Cieding" by the Ministry of the  Interior, but has not achieved uniform implementation. Buses from Kaohsiung and Tainan have the name Romanized with the non-standard "Chieding". The district's website uses several non-standard spellings including "Cieding", "Cheting", and "Chieting". History. From 1920 to 1945, the district was governed under , Okayama District, Takao Prefecture. After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in 1945, Qieding was organized as a rural township of Kaohsiung County. On 25 December 2010, Kaohsiung County merged with Kaohsiung City and Qieding was upgraded to a district of the city. Politics. The district is part of Kaohsiung  City Constituency II electoral district for Legislative Yuan.