Hengchun
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English
Alternative forms
- Heng-ch'un (also from Wade–Giles)
Etymology
From the Mandarin 恆春 / 恒春 (Héngchūn) Wade–Giles romanization: Hêng²-chʻun¹.
Proper noun
Hengchun
- An urban township in Pingtung County, Taiwan
- 1903, James W. Davidson, “The Formosan Camphor Industry”, in The Island of Formosa Past and Present, page 209:
- Even the influence and authority that had once existed, had now been practically lost. We are told of a village, Siehmali (Sha-mari), about five miles east of Hengchun, inhabited by savages who during the reign of Kienlung (1736-1796) shaved their heads, and became loyal subjects of the emperor.
- 1958 April, “Taiwan (Formosa)”, in Commercial Fisheries Review, volume 20, number 4, Washington, D.C.: Fish and Wildlife Service, page 74:
- WHALING IN 1957 UNSUCCESSFUL: The 185-ton Japanese catcher that operated from Hengchun (southern tip of Taiwan) from March to April 1957 caught only 4 whales. A 375-ton catcher arrived at Hengchun in late December 1957 under the same Sino-Japanese cooperation arrangement. With this earlier start, the boat is expected to have a more successful season in 1958.
- 2008 November 7, Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop, “The director Wei Te-sheng's long road to fame”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-06-21, Arts:
- Set in the coastal town of Hengchun, "Cape No. 7" is a parallel narrative of two Japanese-Taiwanese love stories, one of a Japanese man who left his Taiwanese sweetheart to return to Japan after World War II, and the other the relationship between the moody Taiwanese male lead-singer of a hometown rock band and its hot-blooded Japanese band manager.
- 2012 August 26, “Drenched once, Taiwan braces for return of tropical cyclone Tembin”, in South China Morning Post, sourced from AFP, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on May 19, 2024, China:
- Weather bureau data showed Pingtung as a whole had received 724 millimetres of rain since Wednesday, while the township of Hengchun saw rainfall of more than 600 millimetres on Friday alone.
- 2016 September 14, Angela Fritz, “Typhoon Meranti blasted Taiwan, and now it’s headed to China”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 September 2016, Capital Weather Gang:
- In Penghu County, an archipelago west of Taiwan, the wind gusted to 134 mph. Hengchun township reported gusts to 113 mph.
- 2022 August 6, Hui-ting Li, Frances Huang, “Vice president of weapons developer dies of heart attack”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 06 August 2022, Society:
- The 57-year-old Ouyang was not breathing when he was found by his aide in his hotel room in Hengchun Township at 7:20 a.m. Saturday, and the aide immediately called local police for help, according to an NCSIST statement.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hengchun.