Banqiao

See also: bǎnqiáo and Bǎnqiáo

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of Mandarin 板橋板桥 (Bǎnqiáo).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌbɑːnˈt͡ʃjaʊ/

Proper noun

Banqiao

  1. A district, the administrative seat of New Taipei City, Taiwan.
    • [2011, Huang, Lan-Shiang (黃蘭翔), “臺灣板橋林本源園林的真假與虛實 [The True Mingled with the False at Lin Family's Garden in Ban-chiau, Taiwan]”, in 國立臺灣大學美術史研究集刊, volume 30, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
      The principal purpose of this paper is to explain the differences of the Lin Family's Garden in Ban-chiau, Taiwan and the Gardens in South China.
      (Note: Ban-chiau is the Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II (MPS2)-derived name for Banqiao.)]
    • 2019 April 16, Lee, Yimou; Anne Marie Roantree, “Foxconn's Gou says will follow order of sea goddess to run for Taiwan presidency”, in Muralikumar Anantharaman, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-04-07, Consumer Products & Retail News:
      Gou was speaking as more than 100 people crowded into Ci Hui temple in Banqiao, New Taipei City, where the billionaire executive was born and grew up.
    • 2022 August 4, Chang, Hsiung-feng; Matthew Mazzetta, “Taiwan records historically hot, dry weather in July”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 04 August 2022, Society:
      Meanwhile, New Taipei's Banqiao District tallied 26 days in July in which the temperature rose above 35 degrees, while also reporting a record high July temperature of 39.4 degrees, according to the CWB.
  2. A town in Nanzhang, Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
  3. A town in Enshi, Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China.

Translations

References

  1. Wan-yao Chou (周婉窈) (2015), “Transliteration Tables”, in , Carole Plackitt, Tim Casey, transl., A New Illustrated History of Taiwan, Taipei: SMC Publishing, →ISBN, page 433: “Transliterations used in the text / Hanyu pinyin / Chinese characters or Japanese kanji [] Panch'iao / Banqiao / 板橋
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