Hualien

See also: Hua-lien

English

Flag of Hualien County

Alternative forms

• Hua-lien (also from Wade–Giles)
• Hualian (Hanyu Pinyin)
• Hwalien (Postal Romanization)

Etymology

From Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 花蓮／花莲 (Hua¹-lien²).

Pronunciation

• enPR: hwäʹlyěnʹ, hwäʹlēnʹ

Proper noun

Hualien

1. A county in eastern Taiwan.
   • 1962 October, “Foreign Travel : In the Pacific . . . and in Britain . . . some travel bargains”, in Sunset‎^[1], page 16:

     Save some time by flying from Taipei to Hualien (45 minutes) in order to drive part-way along the hand-chiseled East Coast Highway. This road goes through spectacular Taroko Gorge, where marble walls rise from 1,000 to 2,000 feet above the sea. One section goes through 85 tunnels, which have windows cut in the sides to facilitate sightseeing.

   • 1989 December, Arthur Zich, “That Other China”, in Connoisseur‎^[2], pages 134-135:

     The 120-mile East-West Cross-Island Highway, running from just outside Hualien, a city facing the Pacific, across the island's high mountain spine to Tungshih, near Taichung, is on no account to be missed.
     ...
     Midway down the island, the Suao-Hualien Highway dips and snakes for 69 tortuous miles across the face of black-rock cliffs that plunge as much as 2,600 feet into the perpetually raging Pacific.

   • 2000 October 24, “Cheng Yen”, in BusinessWeek‎^[3], page 72:

     Cheng Yen begins each day at 3:50 a.m., awakening from a floor mat in her monastery outside Taiwan's mountainous coastal city of Hualien.[...]
     Her standing in Taiwan is so high that all three presidential candidates in the March election traveled to Hualien to seek her blessing.

   • 2020 October 7, 0:00 from the start, in 2020 Citizens Sports Games bring athletes to the beautiful scenery of Hualien‎^[4], Formosa Television:

     The 2020 Citizens Sports Games are almost here. This year the setting is none other than the beautiful scenery of Hualien.
     These games for the general public will kick off on Oct. 17 and showcase 28 events over six days. More than 15,000 people are expected to converge on Hualien to watch the action.

   • 2022 September 18, Austin Ramzy, “Powerful Earthquake Strikes Taiwan, Killing at Least 1”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 September 2022, Asia Pacific‎^[6]:

     A train derailed and the roof of a platform collapsed at Dongli Station in Hualien County, President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan said in a message on Facebook.

   • 2024 April 3, Ben Blanchard, Shanghai and Hong Kong newsrooms, Bernard Orr, “Taiwan hit by strongest quake in 25 years, buildings damaged”, in Tom Hogue, Himani Sarkar, Lincoln Feast, editors, Reuters‎^[7], archived from the original on April 3, 2024, Asia Pacific:

     Taiwan television stations showed footage of buildings at precarious angles in the sparsely populated eastern county of Hualien, near the quake's epicentre. […]
     Taiwan's Central Weather Administration said the earthquake registered the second-highest intensity of an "Upper 6" in Hualien county, on the 1-7 intensity scale.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hualien.
2. A city in and the administrative seat of Hualien County, Taiwan.
   • 1946 September 14, “Aluminium in Formosa”, in The Chemical Age‎^[8], volume LV, number 1420, London, page 327:

     The industry is centred in Kaohsiung and Hualien, and "after the Japanese surrender the factories were taken over by the Chinese Government.

   • 1979 July 29, “Industrial park to aid progress in E. Taiwan”, in Free China Weekly‎^[9], volume XX, number 29, Taipei, page 4:

     The Mei Lun industrial park near Hualien city in eastern Taiwan offers a good opportunity for local and overseas Chinese businessmen to establish factories.

   • 2021 April 3, Ivan Watson, 0:19 from the start, in Passenger train carrying 490 derails in Taiwan, killing at least 50 and injuring dozens‎^[10], CNN, archived from the original on 2021-04-04:

     There was a 408 train headed down the east side of Taiwan, uh, north of the city of Hualien, and what apparently happened is, judging by some of the aerial images we've seen, some kind of a vehicle was on a road above the railroad, as it was coming along a steep mountain, a coastline, and some kind of construction truck skidded down the side of this mountain close to the railroad tracks, and the train hit it.

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

Translations

a county and a city in Taiwan

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 花蓮／花莲 (faa¹ lin⁴)

  Hokkien: 花蓮／花莲 (Hoa-liân)

  Mandarin: 花蓮／花莲 (zh) (Huālián)

• Japanese: 花蓮 (かれん, Karen)
• Korean: 화롄 (Hwaryen)
• Russian: Хуаля́нь m (Xualjánʹ)
• Vietnamese: Hoa Liên

Further reading

• Hualien, Hua-lien, Hualian at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hualien”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[11], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1321, column 1

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hwa.ljɛn/

Proper noun

Hualien ?

1. Hualien (a city in Taiwan)

German

Proper noun

Hualien n (proper noun, genitive Hualiens or (optionally with an article) Hualien)

1. Hualien (a city in Taiwan)

Spanish

Proper noun

Hualien ?

1. Hualien (a city in Taiwan)