Zuojhen

English

左鎮區圖書館
Zuojhen District Library

Alternative forms

• Tsochen, Tso-chen (Wade–Giles)
• Zuozhen (Hanyu Pinyin)

Etymology

From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 左鎮 (Zuǒjhèn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌ(d)zwoʊˈd͡ʒʌn/, enPR: dzôʹjǔnʹ

Proper noun

Zuojhen

1. A district of Tainan, Taiwan, formerly a rural township.
   • 2012 June 20, Meng-ting Lin, “World’s largest seashell on display at Tsailiao Fossil Museum [世界最大貝殼　菜寮化石館展出]”, in Taipei Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2012-06-22, Bilingual Pages, page 11‎^[4]:

     The exhibit will be on display at the Tsailiao Fossil Museum in Zuojhen District until September 23.

     [original: 「貝殼之美」特展近日至九月二十三日於左鎮菜寮化石館展出， […]]

   • 2017, Yang Shu-min, Frances Huang, “Taiwan's mango exports to set new record in 2017”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[5], archived from the original on 4 August 2017:

     In addition, a group of ice shops in downtown Tainan and the districts of Danei, Yujing and Zuojhen will start selling deserts made using mango so consumers can enjoy fresh mango ice products during the hot summer days.

   • 2017, Ricky Kao, Cheinway Hwang, Jeong Woo Kim, Kuo-En Ching, Frédéric Masson, Wen-Chi Hsieh, Nicolas Le Moigne, Ching-Chung Cheng, “Absolute gravity change in Taiwan: Present result of geodynamic process investigation”, in Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences‎^[6], →DOI, page 857:

     AG7 is located on the eastern side of Zuojhen Fault in western foothills. Zuojhen Fault is a left-lateral fault lying in the northwest-southeast direction across the township^{[sic – meaning district]} of Zuojhen.

   • 2018, Chaohsing Huang, Chipang Lu, Yishan Chen, “Involving Community Volunteers in Recording Deterioration of Buildings After Disaster”, in Asian Education Studies‎^[7], volume 3, number 3, →DOI, page 31:

     The empowerment team kept emphasizing that this is the first voluntary team of this kind in the country and therefore spur their sense of honor. As people had to go to Zuojhen District from Yujing and the day of workshop bumped into busy farming seasons, participants of the forth workshop were fewer.

   • 2019, Ahmed Sayeed, Negate Fighting Faith‎^[8], Chhattisgarh, India: Sankalp Publications, →ISBN, pages 101–102:

     In 1972, fragmentary fossils of anatomically modern humans were found at Chouqu and Gangzilin, in Zuojhen District, Tainan, in fossil beds exposed by erosion of the Cailiao River.

   • 2019 May 13, M. Chuang, “Complaints Roll In on Fossil Park Opening Day [台南左鎮化石園區 開幕人潮破萬]”, in Public Television Service‎^[9], archived from the original on 03 September 2023‎^[10]:

     Few places in Zuojhen are able to draw such a huge crowd anymore. There was traffic congestion and few available parking spaces around here.

     [original: 在左鎮這邊已經很少會有這麼熱鬧的地方，可是我發現來的時候有塞車，然後周邊沒有很好的停車位， […]]

   • 2020 November 23, Yu-hsin Hsiao, William Hetherington, “Chunghwa to trial delivery by UAV”, in Taipei Times‎^[11], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 November 2020, Taiwan News, page 3‎^[12]:

     The move is part of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications’ push to increase the commercial use of drones, the institute said, adding that the postal company previously tested UAVs for mail delivery in Tainan’s Zuojhen District (左鎮) and on Alishan.
     In Tainan, the drones carried 5kg shipments of peaches from farms in the district to the Zuojhen Post Office, cutting what is typically a 90-minute truck route to 15 minutes, it said.

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

Translations

district in southern Taiwan

• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 左鎮 / 左镇 (Chó-tìn)

  Mandarin: 左鎮 / 左镇 (zh) (Zuǒzhèn)