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Chia-i

Chia-i is the alternative form of Chiayi.

Meaning of Chiayi

Proper noun

Chiayi

  1. A city located in the plains of southwestern Taiwan.
    • In Chiayi and Ilan peasant uprisings broke out and could not be put down until the army had taken more than 700 farmers into custody.1939, “Formosans Fight for China”, in China at War, volumes 3-4, Chungking: China Information Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 74
  2. A county of Taiwan, surrounding Chiayi City.
    • Under the social security program, the government will expand insurance coverage to include dependents of public functionaries, and establish more clinics in Tainan, Chiayi, and Hsinchu countries^([sic – meaning counties]).1980 January 13, “Continued stress on people's welfare”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXI, number 2, Taipei, page 1
    Synonyms:
    Ka-gi

Origin of Chia-i

From Mandarin 嘉義 (Jiāyì) Wade–Giles romanization: Chia¹-i⁴.

Questions about Chia-i

What is Chia-i the alternative form of?
Chia-i is the alternative form of Chiayi.

Words near Chia-i in the dictionary

  1. chia
  2. chia seed
  3. chia seeds
  4. Chia-hsien
  5. Chia-hsing
  6. Chia-i
  7. Chia-mu-ssu
  8. Chia-yi
  9. Chia-yü
  10. Chiac
  11. chiack

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chia-i (page history and authors); Chiayi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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