Hsinwu

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 新屋 (Xīnwū) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsin¹-wu¹.

Proper noun

Hsinwu

1. Alternative form of Xinwu.
   • 1990 April 9 [1990 March 24], “Three F-104 Jet Fighters Crash in North”, in JPRS Report China, number 90-026, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taipei CNA, →OCLC, page 82, column 2‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2008, Jack Williams, Ch’ang-yi David Chang, “The perils of development: Taiwan's environmental problems and their causes”, in Taiwan's Environmental Struggle: Toward a Green Silicon Island‎^[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 44:

     3 In 2001 in Hsinwu Township, Taoyuan County, two local politicians were caught trying to make money as unlicensed waste handlers. They collected toxic soil for a fee, claiming to be capable of disposing of it safely, but instead dumped it on farms and a river bank in Hsinwu, polluting the farms and river, and physically threatened people who planned to report them to authorities.

   • 2012, Chuan Ming Tung, Cheng Hsiao Chun, “A preliminary study of the relationship between children’s leisure activity types and outdoor spaces in rural areas –A case study of elementary school students in the west seafront of Hsinwu township, Taoyuan County”, in Proceedings on the 10th International Symposium for Environment Behavior Studies‎^[3], page 2:

     Hsinwu is a typical rural area located in southwest Taoyuan County. The characteristic of natural landscapes in Hsinwu due to intensive agriculture and fishery.

   • 2013, Chun-Chih Tsui et al., “Estimation of Soil carbon Stock in Taiwan Arable Soils by Using Legacy Database and Digital Soil Mapping”, in Maria C. Hernandez Soriano, editor, Soil Processes and Current Trends in Quality Assessment‎^[4], →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 320:

     Generally, soils in the western parts of Taoyuan have larger SOC in the depth 0-150 cm. In Taoyuan, the rice growing soils are largest in the western parts where Hsinwu and Yangmei are located.

   • 2013 October 28, “Giant duck continues to lure crowds”, in Taipei Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 October 2013, Taiwan News, page 3‎^[6]:

     People began to gather at the site in Hsinwu Township (新屋) at about 6am, with some sneaking into the controlled zone to get a close-up view of Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman’s duck, which has been installed in a pond.

   • 2016 August 1, “Mercury in Hsinwu equals this year's high of 38.7 degrees”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[7], archived from the original on 25 September 2022, Society‎^[8]:

     The mercury in Hsinwu (新屋), Taoyuan, soared to 38.7 degrees Celsius at 11:05 a.m. Monday, on a par with this year's record high temperature set in Taipei June 1, according to the Central Weather Bureau.

   • 2021, Chiueh Ya-Wen et al., “The Value of a Decrease in Temperature by One Degree Celsius of the Regional Microclimate—The Cooling Effect of the Paddy Field”, in Atmosphere‎^[9], volume 12, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 5, 7:

     The actual point land temperature records were acquired from 9 weather stations located in the study areas, namely Hsinwu, Hsinchu, Guanwu, Meihua, Chudong, Chunan, Nanzhuang, Sanyi, and Yuenli, provided by the Central Weather Bureau, Taiwan. […]
     According to the various land use classifications, numerous investigations on current land use were conducted between May and July 2004 in Chungli, Hsinwu in Taoyuan, and the Gobei area of Hsinchu County.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hsinwu.

Further reading

• Hsinwu, Hsin-wu at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.