hsien
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Mandarin 縣／县 (xiàn), Wade–Giles romanization: hsien⁴.
Inflected forms:
form: hsiens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Hsien
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: xian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An administrative subdivision of Taiwan, commonly translated as county. (Alternative form of xian for mainland China.)
pos: noun
tags: Taipei
Taiwan
examples: In the hsien, there shall be a hsien government with a hsien magistrate who shall be elected by the people of the hsien.
The fruit is largely eaten, the best coming from Yü-chau hien in Honan, and from Han-yang fu and T'ung-shan hien in Hupeh.
General Li Shu-ch’eng was born at Ch’ien-chiang Hsien, Hupei province, in 1873 and was a salaried licentiate or Linsheng in the Ching Dynasty.
Tea certificates were issued by the magistrates of the following localities: Ch'ien-shan and sixteen other hsien in Anhui; Shan-hua and sixteen other hsien in Hunan. In Hupeh, certificates were issued by the magistrate of Chien-shih to tea merchants. In Hsien-ning and six other chou and hsien, tea planters also received certificates to sell tea (Hu-pu tse-li, 32:4-5).
(2) Huaipin hsien is restored; its present administrative area is the administrative area of the former Huaipin hsien incorporated into Hsi hsien and the two administrative areas of Ch'issu and Changchuang ch'u of the former Huaipin hsien incorporated into Kushih hsien.
A native of Chihsi hsien, Anhwei, Hu Shih was born in Shanghai.
In China in the Ch’ing dynasty local government was organized on the same principle at all levels. All administrative units, from the province down to the chou (department) and the hsien (district), which are the focus of our study, were designed and created by the central government which financed their budgets, appointed their officials, and directed and supervised their activities.
On the first day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar in the year 1907, our respected and beloved Vice Chairman Lin Piao was born to a poverty-stricken family of Lin-chia-ta-wan at the foot of Pai-yang Hill in the Hui-lung mountainous area, Huang-kang hsien, Hupei Province.
B. Relocation and Construction of the Tainan Prison and the Tainan Detention House:
The new prison and detention house is located at Taichutso, Kueijen Hsiang, Tainan Hsien, and has a total space of more than 30 hectares.
We moored at Kuan-tzu Mouth,⁶⁷ which is between the two cities of Sung-tzu and Chih-chiang (modern Chih-chiang Hsien, Hupeh). Sung-tzu was a hsien under the Chin, and from there one enters the Shu River.⁶⁸ Chih-chiang was a hsien under the Tʻang, and anciently was the State of Lo.⁶⁹
Chin-shih is a market town in Li County (hsien) in Ch'ang-te Prefecture (ti-ch'ü).
Nine Salesian priests and eight brothers manage the Salesian Professional School in Taiwan, Boys Town for orphans in Chaochou in Pingtung Hsien, the parish in Taipei, and Salesiana Publishers.
The State of Huang was located in Huang-ch'uan hsien 潢川縣, Ho-nan 河南 province, which was later defeated by the State of Ch'u (Ch'u kuo 楚國), setting the stage for the adoption of Huang as a surname by Lu Chung's descendants in commemoration.
The prosecutors’ office for the Nantou District Court exercises the jurisdiction within the of district Nantou Hsien.
Taiwan-Fukien Area referred to Taiwan District's Taiwan Province, Taipei Municipality, Kaohsiung Municipality and Fukien Province's Kinmen Hsien and Lienchiang Hsien.
Surprisingly, we find the mayor-elect of Penghu hsien, Mr. Lai Fong-wei to be the husband of Ms. Kuo Mei-cheng, who has been the alumnae of TKU majoring in English.
Assigned to the Faidek Corporation of Changhua Hsien, Taiwan, the patent protects a windshield wiper assembly that achieves the desired vibration reductions through the application of a shock-absorbing function created by elastic members within the assembly.
EGC (purity 92.7%) was obtained from ChromaDex, Inc. (Irvine, CA, U.S.A.). and ethyl acetate were LC grade and obtained from ECHO Chemical Co. (Miaoli Hsien, Taiwan).
The fresh stems of C. assamica L. were collected from Taitung Hsien, Taiwan, in October 2009 and verified by Prof. Chang-Sheng Kuoh (Department of Biology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan).
Nestled in Nantou Hsien, Taiwan, this distillery was founded by the Taiwan Tobacco & Liquor Corporation in 1978, however, it was only in 2008 that it produced its first whisky.
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