Chingshui
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Mandarin 清水 (Qīngshuǐ), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻing¹-shui³.
Proper noun
[edit]Chingshui
- Alternative form of Qingshui
- 1976 January 4, “Giant wrestler returns home from Japan for retirement”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly][1], volume XVII, number 1, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:
- Cho Yi-yueh, of Chingshui, Taichung County, went to Japan in 1937 when he was 19. He began training as a sumo wrestler under the professional name of Niitakayama.
- 2006 March 16, Jean Lin, “Taiwanese culture at risk, say legislators”, in Taipei Times[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 October 2022[3]:
- Legislators yesterday stated their displeasure with plans to demolish a military residence in Chingshui Township (清水), Taichung County, saying that Taiwanese culture is at risk.
- 2012 July 23, Meng-Chuan (蘇孟娟) Su, “台中街頭塗鴉區再增二處 [Taichung adds two more official graffiti areas]”, in Kyle Jeffcoat, transl., Taipei Times[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 July 2012[5]:
- One wall of Graffiti 43648, a graffiti art village, in Hsiushui Borough in Greater Taichung’s Chingshui District on April 25.
Further reading
[edit]- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Chingshui”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[6], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 780, column 3