Gaoxiong

See also: Gāoxióng

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Mandarin 高雄 (Gāoxióng).

Proper noun

Gaoxiong

1. Alternative form of Kaohsiung
   • 2017, Sean Lin, “Groups protest use of Hanyu pinyin for new MRT line”, in Taipei Times‎^[1]:

     “For example, the ISO 3166 standard does not spell Kaohsiung as ‘Gaoxiong,’ just as it retained the spelling for Hong Kong, rather than ‘Xianggang,’ after the territory was handed over to China in 1997,” Yu said.

   • 2019, Kim Hyun-bin, “'Air Busan's scheduled operations at Incheon airport to create new momentum'”, in The Korea Times‎^[2]:

     The carrier has also been given slots on five more international routes this year including to Chengdu, Gaoxiong and Cebu.

Translations

Kaohsiung — see Kaohsiung