Neihu

See also: Nèihú

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 內湖 (Nèihú), Wade–Giles romanization: Nei⁴-hu².

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈneɪhu/, enPR: nāʹho͞oʹ
• Rhymes: -uː

Proper noun

Neihu

1. A district of Taipei, Taiwan.
   • 1953, Ch'un-sun (何春蓀) Ho, Mineral Resources of Taiwan‎^[4], Ministry of Economic Affairs, →OCLC, pages 31, 307:

     The coal-bearing rocks consist of two ENE-WSW trending coal belts extending from the coast at the west of Keelung to the eastern edge of the Taipei basin near Sungshan and Neihu. The northern belt is formed of the Lower coal-bearing formation, beginning from Waimushan on the northern coast westwards through Neimushan, Tawulun, Luliao, to Neihu in a total extension of nearly 16 km. […] Neihu 內湖

   • 1969, Free China Review‎^[5], volume 19, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 9, 28:

     The area is 3,678 kilometers and the population exceeds 3,650,000. First projects will be a new city of 300,000 at Linkou and another new community at Neihu to relieve Taipei population pressure. […]
     Some 700,000 housing units will be built along with industrial parks, transportation facilities, public utilities, parks and playgrounds, drainage systems, etc. Development of Linkou and Neihu are high on the priority list.

   • 1969, Taiwan Trade Monthly of the Republic of China‎^[6], Taipei: Epoch Publicity Agency, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31, column 2:

     Linkou in Taipei county and Neihu district of Taipei city will receive priority attention.

   • 1972 April—June, Ronald Freeman, Albert Hermalin, T. H. Sun, “Fertility Trends in Taiwan: 1961-1970”, in Population Index‎^[7], volume 38, number 2, Office of Population Research, Princeton University; Population Association of America, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 151:

     ᵇRural area includes Musha and Neihu, which were made part of Taipei on July 1, 1968.

   • 1977 May 1, “North-South Freeway”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly]‎^[8], volume XVIII, number 17, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 1:

     The section between Keelung and Neihu (northeast of Taipei) of the North-South Freeway is scheduled to be completed by the end of May and will be opened to traffic in July, according to the Taiwan Area Freeway Construction Bureau.

   • 1989 April, Fred Ferretti, “Taipei”, in Gourmet‎^[9], page 190, column 2:

     On one of our morning excursions we went to the Neihu district of Taipei to visit the National Fu Hsing Dramatic Arts Academy.

   • 2017 July 11, Chris Horton, “Lonely Giant of the Taipei Skyline Is About to Get Some Company”, in The New York Times‎^[10], archived from the original on 11 July 2017, Commercial Real Estate‎^[11]:

     The arrival of Taipei Sky Tower and Fubon Xinyi Headquarters is unlikely to hurt the office space market, Mr. Huang said. Fubon, for instance, is moving many of its operations from older buildings in nearby Neihu District.

   • 2018 June 12, Ralph Jennings, Gerry Shih, Christopher Bodeen, “US lauds Taiwan ties in dedication of new de-facto embassy”, in AP News‎^[12], archived from the original on 11 October 2022‎^[13]:

     AIT’s roughly 500 staff members will move to the new office complex in Taipei’s Neihu district in the fall.

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

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 內湖／内湖 (zh) (Nèihú)

Further reading

• Neihu, Nei-hu at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Neihu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[14], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2139, column 3

Anagrams

• Hunei