Zhongli

See also: zhònglì, zhōnglì, and Zhōnglì

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Zhongli District, Taoyuan

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin^[1] romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 中壢／中坜 (Zhōnglì).

Pronunciation

enPR: jo͝ongʹlēʹ

Proper noun

Zhongli

A district of Taoyuan, Taiwan.
- 1982, Stevan Harrell, “Ploughshare in the Socioeconomic System”, in 犁舌尾 [Ploughshare Village: Culture and Context in Taiwan]‎^[2], University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:
  In general, we can see Ploughshare as part of a local system, which includes all the communities for whom the basic-level market, and later administrative center, has been the nearby town of Sanxia. This local system is, in turn, part of a regional system, including all of the Chinese-inhabited parts of Taiwan from Taoyan^{[sic – meaning Taoyuan]} and Zhongli in the south to Jilong in the north, with its market and administrative center at the twin cities of Megjia^{[sic – meaning Mengjia]} and Dadaocheng, which later became Taibei.
- 1984, Tong B. Tang, “Science and Technology in Taiwan”, in Science and Technology in China‎^[3], London: Longman, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 209:
  The Zhongyuan Institute of Science and Engineering is located at Zhongli, a town midway between Taibei and Xinzhu. […]
  National Central University, also at Zhongli, has departments in atmospheric physics, chemical engineering, civil engineering, mathematics, and physics.
- 2022 January 12, Keoni Everington, “3 Union Bank clerks test positive for COVID in northern Taiwan”, in Taiwan News‎^[4], archived from the original on 12 January 2022, Society:
  On Wednesday, Taoyuan Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan (鄭文燦) announced that three clerks working at a Union Bank branch in Taoyuan City's Zhongli District had tested positive for COVID. The three had been listed as contacts of case No. 17,472, a residential service worker.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Zhongli.

Synonyms

(from Hokkien) Tionglek, Tiongliek

Translations

city in Taiwan

Chinese:
Hokkien: 中壢 / 中坜 (zh-min-nan) (Tiong-le̍k, Tiong-li̍k)

Mandarin: 中壢 / 中坜 (zh) (Zhōnglì)
Japanese: 中壢 (ちゅうれき, Chūreki)
Russian: Чжунли́ m (Čžunlí)

References

^ Wan-yao Chou (周婉窈) (2015) “Transliteration Tables”, in Carole Plackitt, Tim Casey, transl., A New Illustrated History of Taiwan‎^[1], Taipei: SMC Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 430: “Transliterations used in the text / Hanyu pinyin / Chinese characters or Japanese kanji […] Chungli / Zhongli / 中壢”