Jhongli

See also: jhongli

English

中壢車站
JHONGLI STATION

Etymology

From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 中壢／中坜 (Zhōnglì), Tongyong Pinyin romanization: Jhonglì.

Proper noun

Jhongli

1. Alternative form of Zhongli
   • 2007, Stephen Keeling, Brice Minnigh, “North Taiwan”, in The Rough Guide to Taiwan (Rough Guides)‎^[3], Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 163:

     The region encompasses Hsinchu, Miaoli, Taoyuan, Taipei and Yilan counties, part of a densely populated urban corridor stretching from Keelung on the northeast coast to the fast expanding cities of Taoyuan and Jhongli further west.

   • 2009, Charley Boorman, “Betel Nuts and Beauties”, in Jeff Gulvin, editor, Right to the Edge : Sydney to Tokyo By Any Means‎^[4], published 2011, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 260:

     Jumping on the Metro and than a local train, we headed out to National Central University at Jhongli, where I had been invited to take a look at a motorbike powered by compressed air.

   • 2012 June 14, “A new world is born”, in Nature‎^[5], volume 486, number 7402, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 161, column 2:

     Wen-Ping Chen at the National Central University in Jhongli, Taiwan, and his team argue for the latter. Using telescopes positioned around the world, the researchers monitored GM Cephei from 2009 to 2011 and found that the brightness of the star dipped each year for about a month.

   • 2021 August 16, Liam Gibson, “Residents of Taiwan's Taoyuan protest construction work scheduled on Sundays”, in Taiwan News‎^[6], archived from the original on 17 February 2022:

     Residents of Taoyuan’s Jhongli District took to the streets on Sunday (Aug. 15) to protest the construction work scheduled on Sundays, claiming the noise from a nearby site prevents them from getting quality rest on weekends.

   • 2022 June 18, “Suspect wanted in murder of Thai couple turns self in”, in Taipei Times‎^[7], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 June 2022, Taiwan News, page 3:

     A spokesperson for the Jhongli District (中壢) police precinct told a news conference that the suspect, Wang Ta-hsien (王大賢) of Thailand, was accompanied by his father, who convinced his son to turn himself in to police in Chiang Mai, Thailand, yesterday morning.
     The Taoyuan District Prosecutors’ Office and the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) are working with Thai authorities to extradite Wang to face charges, the Jhongli police said. […]
     Wang was last seen with the couple surnamed Lee (李), who lived in New Taipei City, on Wednesday last week, Jhongli police said last week.

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

Further reading

• Jhongli at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.