Chi-lung

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 雞籠 (Jīlóng) Wade–Giles romanization: Chi¹-lung².

Pronunciation

• enPR: jēʹlo͝ongʹ

Proper noun

Chi-lung

1. Synonym of Keelung
   • [1964 November, “New Look at Changing China”, in National Geographic Magazine‎^[1], volume 126, number 5, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 641, column 2:

     The “Beautiful Island” wears a necklace of rails and new roads dangling from Taipei, such as the 17-mile MacArthur Expressway linking the capital to the seaport of Chilung. Taiwan has two other international seaports —recently opened Hualien, on the east coast, and Kaohsiung, facing the mainland a scant 200 miles away.]

   • 1968, “CHI-LUNG (KEELUNG; Japanese, KIIRUN)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 5, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 550, column 1:

     Chi-lung's foreign and domestic imports are much greater than exports. It is a major fishing centre, with freezing factories, a marine products school and a meteorological station. Closely associated with coal and power, Chi-lung's industries include fertilizer factories several shipbuilding yards, a grain elevator, a flour mill and a bicycle plant.

   • 1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, ATLAS OF CHINA‎^[2], McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 148:

     However, during July, Taiwan's hottest month, the heat is practically as great in the north as in the south: For that month the average temperature at Chi-lung is 28.2° C, while at the southern tip of the island it is 27.4° C, a difference of only 0.8° C.

   • 1999, Ted Morgan, A Covert Life: Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-communist, and Spymaster‎^[3], New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 274:

     When they drove to Chi-lung, on the northern tip of Taiwan, they crossed a shantytown area where the dockworkers were housed.

   • 2001, Robert Green, Taiwan‎^[4], Lucent Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 6:

     The island is tiny compared to China, its nearest neighbor. It stretches for just 230 miles from north to south, and it is less than half as wide. It is possible to breakfast on steamed buns and tea in the northern port city of Chi-lung and reach the southernmost tip of the island in time for wanfan, the evening rice, as the Taiwanese call dinner.

   • 2001, Patrick Robinson, The Shark Mutiny‎^[5] (Fiction), →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 221:

     Meanwhile, on the seas beneath the endless air battles, the Chinese Navy continued to deploy their warships, running them down from the Northern Fleet to form a silent blockade of the great port of Chi-lung, home of Taiwan's 3rd Naval District and the northern patrol squadron. The Taiwan Air Force, its airfields and runways severely damaged, half their pilots now dead or ' missing, spent the nights licking their wounds, repairing airstrips, fueling fighter aircraft ready to face the Dragon again on the following day. All the while the Chinese warships moved into control positions, dominating the Strait, establishing safe lines of communication and supply. Overhead, to the north of the island. Special Forces were packed into aircraft dropping behind Taiwan's beaches to the west of Chi-lung, the remote area chosen by Admiral Zhang and his senior commanders for the opening beach-head of the conflict.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chi-lung.

Translations

Keelung — see Keelung

Further reading

• “Chi-lung”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• Chi-lung in Encyclopædia Britannica
• “Chi-lung”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Chi-lung” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

Anagrams

• Chungli