Gueiren

English

Gueiren Precinct, Tainan City Police Department

Alternative forms

• Kueijen, Kuei-jen (Wade–Giles)
• Guiren (Hanyu Pinyin)

Etymology

From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 歸仁 (Gueirén).

Proper noun

Gueiren

1. A rural township in Tainan, Taiwan.
   • 2006, 有綠建築真好 [Good to be Green: Green Building Promotion Policy in Taiwan]‎^[3], Taipei: Architecture & Building Research Institute Ministry of the Interior, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 101:

     All the assessments of Green Buildings depend on the evidences of scientific experiment. Therefore the National Building Performance Laboratory located in Gueiren, Tainan was set up by Architecture and Building Research Institute, Ministry of the Interior for the vernacular scientific experiments and practices of Green Buildings.

   • 2016 February 5, Jillian Sederholm, Phil Helsel, “Taiwan Earthquake: More Than 150 Missing After Deadly 6.4-Magnitude Temblor”, in NBC News‎^[4], archived from the original on 7 February 2016:

     Two died in Tainan's Gueiren District, including a woman who was hit by a fallen^{[sic – meaning falling]} water tower.

   • 2017, Chao-Hua (王昭驊) Wang, “臺南市歸仁區的聚落變遷與發展（1895-2016） [The Development of Settlement in Gueiren District, Tainan City(1895-2016)]”, in Bulletin of the Geographical Society of China 中國地理學會會刊‎^[5], volume 59, →DOI:

     In this study, we discuss about rainfall in Gueiren District, one of the satellite towns of Tainan City and a rural-urban fringe of Tainan City. The purpose of this study is mainly to discuss the development and settlement factors and land use in Gueiren District from Japanese colonial period to the present day and the change of lifestyle of residents due to the influence of urban expansion in Gueiren District after World War II.

   • 2022 January 5, Rebecca Oi, “Taiwan ramps up smart technology initiatives”, in Tech Wire Asia‎^[6], archived from the original on 5 January 2022‎^[7]:

     The new Cyber Security and Smart Technology R&D building is part of Shalun Smart Green Energy Science City, an industrial park in Gueiren District, Tainan.
     “Few people wanted to move for work to Gueiren five years ago, but the hub in the district is expected to become the cradle of Asia’s most advanced cybersecurity technology, featuring innovative startups,” quipped Minister of Science and Technology Wu Tsung-tsong during the new building’s opening ceremony.

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

Translations

district in south Taiwan

• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 歸仁／归仁 (Kui-jîn)

  Mandarin: 歸仁／归仁 (zh) (Guīrén)

Further reading

• Gueiren, Kueijen, Kuei-jen at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.