Saei

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See also: saei and sæi

English

Map including SAEI (lower left) (AMS, 1944)

Etymology

From Japanese 左營(さえい) (saei).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Saei

  1. (historical, in reference to Japanese Taiwan) Synonym of Zuoying: the Japanese-derived name
    • 1947, United States Hydrographic Office, Hydropac Message Summary (Contains all Hydropacs in effect June 1, 1947)‎, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 14:
      There is a small naval port, 4 miles north of Takao, at (Saei) Toshien Harbor (entrance to harbor at lat. 22°41.8' N., long. 120°15.2' E.)
    • 1991, Toru Nabeyama, Trends of the Petrochemical Industry and Its Marketplace in East Asia‎, →OCLC, page 27:
      The Construction of the fifth naphtha cracker by Chinese Petroleum Corp. was opposed by the residents of Saei district which includes a petrochemical industry district of Kaohsiung.
    • 2018, World War II Sea War‎, volume 12, Bertke Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 221:
      28 FEBRUARY 1944 […]
      1700 1825 IJN minesweeper W-18 departed Takao, Formosa, for Saei, Formosa. W-18 arrived at Saei.

References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tsoying”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1954, column 3: “Jap. Saei (säʹā)”
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