Sinhua

English

Sinhua District Office, Tainan City

Alternative forms

• Hsin-hua, Hsinhua (Wade–Giles)
• Xinhua (Hanyu Pinyin)

Etymology

From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 新化 (Sinhuà).

Proper noun

Sinhua

1. A district of Tainan, Taiwan.
   • 2006, Ping-hui Liao, David Der-wei Wang, Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895–1945‎^[3], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page [4]:

     On September 9, when a solitary Japanese patrolman tried to curtail the work of five Taiwanese who were cutting trees from a windbreak (in Anting settlement, Sinhua district), the accused responded "Taiwan is not Japan's land. Why are you stopping us?"

   • 2006, 廉政工作年報‎^[5], 法務部調查局廉政處, →OCLC, page 291:

     In the morning of October 9, 2005, they organized a BBQ event at Hu-Tou Pei, Sinhua Township, Tainan County, in the name of having a celebration for their political party.

   • 2018 November 9, “Development Plan for Land Management”, in Mingde Minimum-Security Prison, Agency of Corrections, Ministry of Justice‎^[6], archived from the original on 4 December 2020:

     If you take a right turn, you can go in the direction of Sinhua, or Tainan. Carrying on in this direction, you can get to Second Southern Freeway or to No. 8 Expressway, going in the east-west direction, which also connects with Sun Yat-sen Freeway.

   • 2019, “Tainan to present 12 dowry gifts to Lin Chi-ling, groom”, in Taipei Times‎^[7], archived from the original on 15 November 2019:

     The gifts also include sesame oil from Shanhua (善化) and Sigang (西港) districts, salt from Cigu (七股), Dongcheng soy sauce and Chengkung soy sauce from Sinhua (新化), plum vinegar from Nansi (楠西) and white gourd tea bricks from the West Central District (中西區).

   • 2019, George Liao, “2019 Tainan May Jam to take place at Hutoupi in SW Taiwan on May 4 - 5”, in Taiwan News‎^[8], archived from the original on 5 May 2019:

     The 2019 Tainan May Jam will take place at Hutoupi Scenic Area (虎頭埤風景區) in Sinhua (新化), Tainan City from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m. on May 4 – 5, and there will be 30 bands performing in the concert this year, Tainan’s Tourism Bureau said on Tuesday.

   • 2021 February 22, “Tainan City Government turning old food market into park-like leisure area”, in Taipei Times‎^[9], archived from the original on 21 February 2021:

     The current market in Sinhua District has become outdated and cannot meet the increasing trade volume, city government officials said...A fruit and vegetable market in Sinhua District (新化), expected to open in September, is to feature an open structure with a terraced green roof accessible from its eastern corner, where terraces would take shoppers down to the ground level, the Tainan Agriculture Bureau has said....The new market would replace an existing one in Sinhua that has been the city’s largest agricultural trade hub since it integrated four smaller markets in neighboring districts in 2012, bureau officials said.

   • 2021 June 18, Wan-Yu Liu, Yo-Zheng Lin, Chi-Ming Hsieh, “Assessing the Ecological Value of an Urban Forest Park: A Case Study of Sinhua Forest Park in Taiwan”, in Forests‎^[10], volume 12, number 6, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     The Sinhua Forest Park is located in the Sinhua District of Tainan, which is close to the downtown area of Tainan with only a 10-min drive.

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

Translations

district in south Taiwan

• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 新化 (Sin-hòa)

  Mandarin: 新化 (zh) (Xīnhuà)

Anagrams

• Husain