Miaoli

See also: Miao-li

English

Alternative forms

• Miao-li (also from Wade–Giles)

Pronunciation

• enPR: myouʹlēʹ

Etymology 1

From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 苗栗 (Miáolì), Wade–Giles romanization: Miao²-li⁴.

Proper noun

Miaoli

1. A county in western Taiwan.
   • 1982 June 13, “Wood-carving art thrives in small town”, in Free China Weekly‎^[1], volume XXII, number 23, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

     Wood-carving, one of Taiwan's leading folk arts, is concentrated on the small village of Sanyi in Miaoli county in north-central Taiwan, where the people have traditionally had the necessary skills and ample access to timber materials. […]
     Woodcarving is one of Taiwan's leading folk arts, and Sanyi village in Miaoli county is the center of production.

   • 2019 December 22, Rik Glauert, “FEATURE -Taiwan emerges as new market for LGBT+ surrogacy after gay marriage law”, in Reuters‎^[2], archived from the original on 08 May 2022, Non-cyclical Consumer Goods:

     Jack, 31, who lives with his boyfriend of nine years in Miaoli County in the west of Taiwan, has created an embryo in a country in Europe and is currently in the process of having it transferred to the surrogate.

   • 2021 June 18, Amy Chang Chien, Amy Qin, “In Taiwan, some foreign tech workers are confined indoors to tackle an outbreak.”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 June 2021, Asia Pacific‎^[4]:

     Under the measures announced last week by the authorities in the central county of Miaoli, thousands of migrant workers, mostly from Vietnam and the Philippines, are prevented from leaving their dormitories except to travel to and from their jobs at high-tech factories.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Miaoli.
2. A city and the administrative seat in Miaoli County, Taiwan.
   • 1899 November 11, “Formosa”, in The Japan Weekly Mail‎^[5], volume XXXII, number 20, Yokohama, page 491:

     In the middle of last month the Miaoli post office was the scene of a raid. Some thirty bandits broke into the place and attempted to rifle the safe.

   • 1903, William Campbell, Formosa Under the Dutch‎^[6], Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 599:

     Peking Gazette, the-(continued). […]
     Volume for 1890. […]
     Nov. 7. Typhoon at Tai-pei, Kelung, Tamsui, and Miaoli on 16 August.

   • 1958, “The Faith and Formosa”, in Scarboro Missions‎^[7], volume 39, number 11, page 22:

     About a half hour down the main highway by jeep we come to Toufen where the multi-million dollar China Artificial Fibre Corporation has a large plant. This city is in the deanery of Miaoli, the southern-most part of the Archdiocese of Taipeh. Here Fr. James A. McCormick, M.M. hopes to dedicate the Church of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel on July 16th.

   • 1962, Sister Maria del Rey, Safari by Jet‎^[8], New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 183:

     Such a welter of languages! Spellings and pronunciations are anybody's fair game. There are so many right ways in Taiwan that any one them is the wrong way to millions. Each city and town has a Mandarin name, a Taiwanese name, an old Japanese name and, in the mountains, an aborigine name. In the Miaoli area, a Hakka name as well. This makes letter writing or travel a fascinating sport. Even the name of the island is vastly under dispute. You can whip up a bloody battle by calling it Formosa. Protagonists for Taiwan of Free China see red.

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

Translations

county in western Taiwan

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 苗栗 (miu⁴ leot⁶)

  Hokkien: 苗栗 (Biâu-li̍k)

  Mandarin: 苗栗 (zh) (Miáolì)

• Japanese: 苗栗 (びょうりつ, Byōritsu)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Miaoli”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[9], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1968, column 3

Etymology 2

From Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 廟李／庙李.

Proper noun

Miaoli

1. (historical) A town in Jinshui district, Zhengzhou, Henan, China.

Translations

former town in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 廟李／庙李 (Miàolǐ)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Miaoli, Miao-li at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.