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Ciaotou

Ciaotou proper noun: a district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

ciaotou: a district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Proper noun

Ciaotou

  1. A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
    • The only Special Station public artwork that was commissioned from a Taiwanese artist, Chu Pang-hsiung, is installed at Ciaotou [Kio-A-Thau] Station, near the location of the now-defunct Ciaotou Sugar Refinery.2011, Anru Lee, Perng-juh Peter Shyong, “Assessing (multi)culturalism through public art practices”, in Tak-Wing Ngo, Hong-zen Wang, editors, Politics of Difference in Taiwan, Routledge, →ISBN...
    • Ciaotou Sugar Factory
    • (橋頭糖廠, Qiáotóu Tángchǎng) Ciaotou consists of a defunct factory (which you can walk into, and explore the old mechanisms and vats) and an old village that retains most of its early-20th-century flavour.2014, Robert Kelly, Chung Wah Chow, Taiwan, 9th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 256

Examples of Ciaotou in a sentence

  • The jurisdiction area of Taiwan Ciaotou District Prosecutors Office includes 26 districts in total.2017 September 30, “Jurisdiction”, in 臺灣橋頭地方檢察署 [Taiwan Ciaotou District Prosecutors Office], archived from the original on 24 Jul 2019:
  • Ciaotou Sugar Refinery was built during Japanese colonial rule period and was the first modern sugar refinery in Taiwan.2018, “Ciaotou Sugar Refinery”, in Hou Ya-ting, transl., Love Kaohsiung, number 6, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2020:
  • His suggestion was soon realized when Taiwan Sugar began operating its first ‘newstyle’ sugar factory in Kyōshitō (present-day Ciaotou District, Kaohsiung City: see Map 1), in January 1902.2019, Mariko Iijima, “Sugar Islands in the Pacific in the Early Twentieth Century: Taiwan as a Protégé of Hawai'i”, in Historische...
  • But the city government has preferred to focus on high-tech industry, such as developing a new science park in the Ciaotou district.2020 April 22, Louise Watt, “Kaohsiung Seeks a Change of Fortune”, in American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei, archived from the original on...

Forms of Ciaotou

alternative formCh’iao-t’ou
alternative formChiaotou
alternative Hanyu-PinyinQiaotou

Origin of Ciaotou

From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 橋頭 (Ciáotóu).

Questions about Ciaotou

What does Ciaotou mean?
Ciaotou means a district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
How do you use Ciaotou in a sentence?
The jurisdiction area of Taiwan Ciaotou District Prosecutors Office includes 26 districts in total.
What part of speech is Ciaotou?
Ciaotou is a proper noun.

Words near Ciaotou in the dictionary

  1. cianopramine
  2. Cianos
  3. ciao
  4. ciao bella
  5. ciaos
  6. Ciaotou
  7. ciapilome
  8. Ciara
  9. Ciaramella
  10. Ciaramellas
  11. Ciaramitaro

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