Changhua

See also: Chang-hua and chánghuà

English

Alternative forms

• Chang-hua (also from Wade–Giles)
• Changhwa, Chang-hwa
• Jhanghua (Tongyong Pinyin)
• Zhanghua (Hanyu Pinyin)

Etymology

From Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 彰化 (Zhānghuà), Wade-Giles romanization: Chang¹-hua⁴.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋˈhwɑ/

Proper noun

Changhua

1. A county in western Taiwan.
   • 1979 February 18, “'Cowgirl' finds contentment, prosperity on the land”, in Free China Weekly‎^[1], volume XX, number 6, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

     That is why Yeh Hui-chen goes contentedly every day to her family ranch in the Mt. Bank area of Changhua county in central Taiwan to pursue her chosen profession.[...]In the past, the inhabitants eked out a meager living by growing pineapples and plums, which had to be carried out on foot through the rugged mountain area on the border of Changhua and Nantou counties.

   • 2000, Shui-Bian Chen, “Learning and Transformation”, in David J. Toman, transl., The Son of Taiwan: The Life of Chen Shui-Bian and His Dreams for Taiwan‎^[2], Taiwan Publishing Co., Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 26:

     In Changhua County's Fenyuan village, I came across some old pineapple growers. The harvest was unexpectedly good this year, but the agricultural cooperative was unable to purchase their surplus.

   • 2003 June 18, “President Chen Inspects an Industrial Park in Changhua County”, in Office of the President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)‎^[3]:

     The president made the remarks during an inspection tour of the central county of Changhua where he visited a new-style touch fasteners manufacturing firm and an industrial park.

   • 2018 January 20, “Taiwan reports new bird flu cases”, in yan, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[4]:

     Taiwan has confirmed new outbreaks of bird flu at two farms in Changhua County, and culled more than 13,000 chickens and ducks, the island's animal and plant health inspection and quarantine bureau said on Saturday.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Changhua.
2. A city and the administrative seat in Changhua County, Taiwan.
   • 1877 March 12, Herbert J. Allen, Notes of a Journey through Formosa from Tamsui to Taiwanfu (Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society)‎^[5], volume 21, page 261:

     As we were now going to have rougher travelling than we had had, we despatched a courier to Taiwanfu with our surplus baggage, and letters to inform the Consul of our plans. We went S.S.E. for 13 miles over a fertile plain, cultivated with sugar-cane, tobacco, ground-nut, sweet potatoes, &c., drawing gradually towards the range of hills on our left. At the head of the gorge, due east of the district town of Changhua, we were met by a party of thirty or forty tall, stalwart Pepohuans, armed with knives and match-locks, who were to be our bodyguard through the mountains, to protect us from the savages.

   • 1888, Mr. Denby to Mr. Bayard (Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States for the Year 1887)‎^[6], number 179, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 224:

     SIR: I have the honor to report that the governor of Formosa, Lin Ming-Chuan, has made a contract with Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., for the supply by the latter of rails, rolling stock, and bridge for a narrow-gauge, light-weight railway of 80 miles in length.
     The line is to be from Tamsui to Changhua, the future capital of the island. The only stream to bridge is the Taikia River. It will be spanned by a lattice girder bridge in two sections, of a joint length of 1,400 feet.

   • 1889 October 9, Pelham Warren, Commerce of Takao and Taiwanfoo (Reports from the Consuls of the United States)‎^[7], volume 32, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 201:

     The attempts of the governor to raise revenue by increasing the land-tax five-fold resulted in an outbreak of determined opposition and culminated in actual insurrection in the latter part of the summer of 1888. The first rising took place at Pilam, a town on the southeast coast. The Chinese settlers there entered into an alliance with the neighboring savages, and, in spite of the dispatch of some 3,000 troops, appear to have successfully held their own. What the result would have been in the long run it is difficult to estimate, but the anti-land-tax movement having broken out in the district of Changhua, in the very center of the island, the authorities, it is believed, compromised the question at Pilam, so as to have their hands free to cope with the much more formidable state of affairs at Changhua.

   • 1956 June 27, Charlotte A. Dunlap, “Women's Work”, in Southern Presbyterian Journal‎^[8], volume 15, number 9, page 11:

     We gave our Changhua preacher's wife a gift when her second baby was born at Christmas time just because she is young and badly wants nice things for her infant girl.

   • 1957, Edgar Snow, Random Notes on Red China‎^[9], Harvard University Press, published 1968, →OCLC, page 103:

     Ts'ai Ch'ien 蔡乾 was born in 1908 in Changhua near Taichung, Taiwan (Formosa). His father was an accountant in a rice shop and a descendant of the three hundred Fukienese families who went to Taiwan with Koxinga, who led a rebellion there against the Manchus.
     At the age of six Ts'ai Ch'ien entered primary school, studied Japanese, and graduated after eight years. He taught at the same school, in Changhua, for one year. In 1924 he came to Shanghai, financed partly by his father and partly by the Chinese Cultural Association of Taiwan. He attended Shanghai University, where Yü Yu-jen was president, in 1924-25.

   • 1983, Lois Wong Chi, Robin Dodson, Fred Ung, “Emergence Pattern of Cercariae from Oncomelania hupensis formosana, Snail Host for Zoophilic Schistosomiasis japonicum”, in The Veliger‎^[10], volume 25, number 3, page 194:

     Oncomelania hupensis formosana collected from the field at Changhua, Taiwan, were used throughout the shedding experiments. They were reared in either 13 cm clay saucers with mud mixture and water (WAGNER & CHI, 1959) or in 20 cm glass bowls.

   • 2004, Phil Macdonald, National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 212:

     About three miles (5 km) south of Changhua, along County Route 137 in Huatan, the Taiwan Folk Village (30 Sanfen Rd., Wanya Village Huatan Township, tel (04) 787-0088, $$ closed Mon.) showcases traditional Taiwanese culture-and more.

   • 2020 January 8, Steven Lee Myers, Chris Horton, “China Looms Over Taiwan’s Election, Giving a Boost to the Incumbent”, in New York Times‎^[11], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-01-08‎^[12]:

     President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan campaigning in the city of Changhua on Tuesday.

   • 2020 July 14, Frida Ghitis, “Can Taiwan survive a second Trump term?”, in Washington Post‎^[13]:

     Taiwanese war planes are parked on a highway during an annual exercise to simulate a response to a Chinese attack on Taiwan's airfields in Changhua in southern Taiwan.

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

Synonyms

• (from Hokkien Pe̍h-ōe-jī) Chiang-hoa

Translations

county in western Taiwan

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 彰化 (zoeng¹ faa³)

  Hakka: 彰化 (Chông-fa)

  Hokkien: 彰化 (Chiong-hòa)

  Mandarin: 彰化 (zh) (Zhānghuà)

• Japanese: 彰化 (しょうか, Shōka)
• Korean: 장화(彰化) (ko) (janghwa)
• Vietnamese: Chương Hóa (彰化)

Further reading

• “Changhua”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• Changhua, Chang-hua, Zhanghua at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Changhua”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[14], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 725, column 1: “Also spelled Changhwa.”

Anagrams

• Hang-chau