Hsinshih

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 新市 (Xīnshì), Wade–Giles romanization: Hsin¹-shih⁴.

Proper noun

Hsinshih

1. Alternative form of Sinshih
   • 2003, Doing Business and Investing in Taiwan‎^[1], PricewaterhouseCoopers, →OCLC, pages 11–12:

     The Tainan Science-based Industrial Park (TSIP) is located between Hsinshih rural township and Shanhua urban township in Tainan County.

   • 2007 July 9, “Glitch with switch sends high speed rail back and forth”, in Taipei Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 July 2007, Taiwan News, page 2‎^[3]:

     Passengers said the train had to reverse from Hsinshih (新市) in Tainan County to Liuchiao (六腳) in Chiayi County before moving forward again.

   • 2011 December 6, “穿洋裝反串　曾志偉偷女學生內衣 [Cross-dressing panty pilferer stole female students’ undies]”, in Taipei Times‎^[4], archived from the original on 06 October 2022, Bilingual Pages:

     Two female students at Far East University in Tainan’s Hsinshih District had their underwear regularly stolen. […]
     He rents a room in a dormitory on Renai Road in Hsinshih.

   • 2014, Shiann-Far Kung, “Green Development Strategies at Southern Taiwan Science Park”, in Deog-Seong Oh, Fred Phillips, editors, Technopolis: Best Practices for Science and Technology Cities‎^[5], →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 372:

     The designated site was a flat and low land of 638 ha (2,565 ac) in the middle of Taiwan's agricultural heartland, located across the border of three rural townships—Hsinshih, Shanhua, Anding of Tainan County; these three nearby major settlements altogether housed around 100,000 residents in the mid-1990s.

   • 2015, Wan-yao (周婉窈) Chou, “The Emergence of the "Beautiful Island"”, in Carole Plackitt, Tim Casey, transl., A New Illustrated History of Taiwan‎^[6], Taipei: SMC Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 61:

     We know that the Taiwanese aboriginals had never had a written language, but when the Dutch arrived, they created a system of romanization for writing the language of the Sinkan villagers in present-day Hsinshih in Tainan.

   • n.d., “Employment Services”, in 臺南市政府勞工局職訓就服中心 [Vocational Training and Employment Services Center, Labor Affairs Bureau, Tainan City Government]‎^[7], archived from the original on 29 April 2016:

     To help employers and job seekers get the most efficient and the highest level of employment services, Tainan City Government has strived for setting up employment service stations with the financial support from the central government since 2002. Until now, five stations have been set up in Jiali District, Hsinshih District, Guantian District, Gueiren District, and Yonghua Civic Center.

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