Chienshih

See also: Chien-shih

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 尖石 (Jiānshí) Wade–Giles romanization: Chien¹-shih².

Proper noun

Chienshih

1. Alternative form of Jianshi
   • 1962, Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Taiwan‎^[1], numbers 14-16, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

     The town of Chutung is located five kilometers northwest of the coal field. There is a highway from Chutung to Chienshih and another from Chutung through Shangping to Wufeng along the above-mentioned streams.

   • 1983 October 23, “Uranium Found in Taipei County”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly]‎^[2], volume XXIV, number 42, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 1:

     Aside from Sanhsia, other exploration areas include Tahsi, Chienshih end along the East-West Cross-Island Highway.

   • 1995, 光華畫報‎^[3], volume 20, numbers 1-6, →OCLC, page 81:

     The other main route follows the works road which runs from Chienshih Village in Chienshih Township, Hsinchu County, via the "front mountain" Atayal villages of Chinping, Tienpu and Hsiuluan, and ends a 40-minute walk away from […]

   • 2004 April 28, “President Chen Concerns the Reconstruction in Aboriginal Village”, in Office of the President, Republic of China (Taiwan)‎^[4], archived from the original on 04 October 2022‎^[5]:

     Under the government's assistance, Chen said, Nantou County's Hsinhsiang village, Hsinchu County's Chienshih rural township and Kaohsiung County's Sanmin rural township have become model aboriginal communities through integrated development programs that have been carried out over the past four years.

   • 2006 January 17, Jih-ching Peng, “US teacher bikes six hours to volunteer”, in Taipei Times‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 January 2006, Taiwan News, page 2‎^[7]:

     When Greenhoe visited Shihlei in the Houshan District (後山) of Hsinchu County's Chienshih Township (尖石) two years ago, he learned that the local school lacked an English teacher, and that English classes had therefore stopped.

   • 2007 September 19, “Wipha brings woe, havoc to northern Taiwan area”, in Taiwan News‎^[8], archived from the original on 04 October 2022:

     The Executive Yuan's typhoon relief center was yesterday forced to evacuate 169 people residing in Chienshih and Wufeng townships in Hsinchu County because of serious concerns about possible landslides that may result from all the precipitation over the past two days.

   • 2009 February 10, “LATIN LESSONS”, in Taipei Times‎^[9], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 February 2009, Community Compass, page 4:

     El Salvadorian student Alfonso, second right, and Panamanian student Yuriela, third right, teach students at Hsinle Elementary School in Hsinchu County’s Chienshih Township to speak English in this photo taken last Tuesday.

   • 2019, Jeffrey Edward Nicolaisen, “Equality of Life: Thinking With Multi-Species Relationships in Taiwan”, in Duke University‎^[10], archived from the original on 30 June 2022, page 334:

     In this chapter, I begin by introducing the Tayal Nation and providing a description of how their pre-Christian cosmology may have looked. With a generic cosmology as background, I introduce the particular community of Chienshih Township in the northern Taiwan county of Hsinchu.

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