Banqiao
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 板橋／板桥 (Bǎnqiáo).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Banqiao
- A district, the administrative seat of New Taipei City, Taiwan.
- 2003, Chen-shan Ellen Wang, “The New Restoration Project”, in Historic Preservation in Taiwan: The Restoration of Tainan Da Tianhou Gong (Thesis), University of Pennsylvania, →OCLC, page 56:
- As mentioned in the first chapter, entrusting university professors as chief managers for restoration projects of national cultural assets has been patterned after the project of Lin family's garden at Banqiao, Taipei County.
- 2019 April 16, Yimou Lee, Anne Marie Roantree, “Foxconn's Gou says will follow order of sea goddess to run for Taiwan presidency”, in Muralikumar Anantharaman, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-04-07, Consumer Products & Retail News:
- Gou was speaking as more than 100 people crowded into Ci Hui temple in Banqiao, New Taipei City, where the billionaire executive was born and grew up.
- 2022 August 4, Hsiung-feng Chang, Matthew Mazzetta, “Taiwan records historically hot, dry weather in July”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 04 August 2022, Society:
- Meanwhile, New Taipei's Banqiao District tallied 26 days in July in which the temperature rose above 35 degrees, while also reporting a record high July temperature of 39.4 degrees, according to the CWB.
- A town in Nanzhang, Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
- A town in Enshi, Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China.
Translations
administrative seat of New Taipei City
References
- ^ Pan-ch’iao, Pinyin: Banqiao, in Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ Wan-yao Chou (周婉窈) (2015) “Transliteration Tables”, in Carole Plackitt, Tim Casey, transl., A New Illustrated History of Taiwan, Taipei: SMC Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 433: “Transliterations used in the text / Hanyu pinyin / Chinese characters or Japanese kanji […] Panch'iao / Banqiao / 板橋”