Hsinfeng
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Mandarin 新豐 (Xīnfēng) Wade–Giles[1] romanization: Hsin¹-fêng¹.
Proper noun
[edit]Hsinfeng
- Alternative form of Xinfeng
- 1990 April 9 [1990 March 24], “Three F-104 Jet Fighters Crash in North”, in JPRS Report China[3], number 90-026, United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 82, column 2:
- The wreckage of the combat aircraft was later found in Hsinfeng, Hsinchu County, and in Hsinwu, Taoyuan County, during a five-hour intensive search in northern Taiwan.
- 1990 June 29 [1990 June 2], “Police Arrest 43 From Mainland”, in JPRS Report China[4], numbers 90-047, United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 111, column 1:
- Police and coastal security forces arrested 43 mainland Chinese early Thursday morning shortly after they had landed on the beach of Hsinfeng Hsiang, Hsinchu County, in an attempt to smuggle themselves into Taiwan.
- 1995, Roger Mark Selya, “Taipei as a center of culture”, in Taipei[5], John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 243:
- Tennis and golf are especially popular. Advertisements for golf courses are carried by buses. But the golf links are not accessible, being located in Shihmen dam area, south of Taipei City, in Hsinfeng in Hsinchu hsien, and in Lungtan in Taoyuan hsien.
- 2018 June 28, Mei-chu Huang, Hung Mei-hsu, Jonathan Chin, “Hsinchu candidates spar over county garbage issue”, in Taipei Times[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-27, Taiwan News, page 3[7]:
- The county government has signed a contract with a food waste treatment plant in Hsinfeng Township (新豐) to increase the region’s disposal capacity and has opened bidding to recycle waste from landfills into industrial fuel, he said.
- 2022 April 27, George Liao, “Taiwan's Hsinchu County to launch YouBike 2.0, first 41 stations to operate by June”, in Taiwan News[8], archived from the original on 2022-05-16, Travel & Cuisine[9]:
- The second phase will include the installation of another nine YouBike 2.0 stations in Zhubei by year-end to bring the total number in the city to 50, providing 400 bicycles. Another 50 stations will be installed in Zhudong Township, Hsinfeng Township, and Hukou Township, providing 350 bicycles by 2023, according to the release.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hsinfeng.
References
[edit]- ^ “Taiwan place names”, in Pinyin.info[1], 2006, archived from the original on 2006-10-01[2]:
- This list of city and county names of places in Taiwan gives Chinese characters, Hanyu Pinyin, Tongyong Pinyin, and a commonly seen older form (usually bastardized Wade-Giles). […] 鄉鎮市區別 / Hanyu Pinyin (recommended) / Hanyu Pinyin (with tones) / Tongyong Pinyin / old forms […] 新豐鄉 / Xinfeng / Xīnfēng / Sinfong / Hsinfeng