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Pengjia

Syllables: Peng·jia

Pengjia proper noun: an islet of Zhongzheng district, Keelung, Taiwan.

Proper noun

Pengjia

  1. An islet of Zhongzheng district, Keelung, Taiwan.
    • At exactly 9:00 a.m. on May 5, 1989, 220 fishermen in nineteen boats sailed out from Su-ao Harbor in I-lan County on Taiwan's east coast; officially, they were going to fish the waters off P'eng-chia, an island seventy nautical miles north of Taiwan.[1996, Vivian-Lee Nyitray, “The Sea Goddess and the Goddess of Democracy”, in The Annual Review of Women in World Religions, volume IV, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, →OL...
    • In the QPE study area, we observed initially that there was a high degree of small-scale salinity and temperature features likely associated with the typhoon-enhanced river runoff (Figure 1). In addition, there was substantial cooling in the area (up to 6 degrees C. as measured at Pengjia Island)...2009, High-Resolution Hydrographic Surveys near the Shelfbreak in the East China Sea: Joint Studies with National Taiwan University as Part of the Quantifying, Predicting, and Exploiting Uncertainty...

Examples of Pengjia in a sentence

  • In addition, there was substantial cooling in the area (up to 6 degrees C. as measured at Pengjia Island) after the typhoon passed by.2009, High-Resolution Hydrographic Surveys near the Shelfbreak in the East China Sea: Joint Studies with National Taiwan University as Part...
  • In the 1950's Pengjia Island used to be home to millions of breeding albatross every year.2018, “ASIA & OCEANIA”, in Luke Einoder, editor, Pacific Seabirds, volume 45, number 2, page 75:

Forms of Pengjia

alternative formPengchia
alternative formP'eng-chia

Origin of Pengjia

From the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 彭佳 (Péngjiā).

Questions about Pengjia

What does Pengjia mean?
Pengjia means an islet of Zhongzheng district, Keelung, Taiwan.
How do you use Pengjia in a sentence?
In addition, there was substantial cooling in the area (up to 6 degrees C. as measured at Pengjia Island) after the typhoon passed by.
What part of speech is Pengjia?
Pengjia is a proper noun.

Words near Pengjia in the dictionary

  1. penger
  2. pengest
  3. Penghu
  4. penghulu
  5. penghulus
  6. Pengjia
  7. Penglai
  8. Penglai City
  9. Penglai Island
  10. Penglai Mountain
  11. Penglish

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