Pengchia

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 彭佳 (Péngjiā) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻêng²-chia¹.

Proper noun

Pengchia

1. Alternative form of Pengjia
   • 1988 October 26 [1988 October 20], “Mainland Businessmen Enter Illegally; Arrested”, in Daily Report: China‎^[1], numbers 88-207, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 69, column 1‎^[2]:

     Under their arrangement, Wang and Chu left Fukien in a fishing boat about 4 p.m. on Oct. 13 and, after changing boats at Pengchia Isle off the northern coast of Taiwan, arrived in Toucheng, Ilan County, the morning of Oct. 15.

   • 1999, Karen Hulene Bartell, chapter 12, in Sovereignty of the Dragons‎^[3] (Fiction), Unity, Maine: Five Star, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 293:

     In an apparently related story, the PRC has announced its sudden plans to escalate its already extensive military exercises by testing missiles in the East China Sea one hundred and fifty kilometers north of Taiwan, off Taiwan-held Pengchia islet.

   • 2014 February 27, “Exercise held in disputed waters”, in Taipei Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 July 2018, Taiwan News, page 4‎^[5]:

     Two coast guard patrol vessels, the Hsin Bei and the Ho-shin, were joined by the navy’s Kang Ding frigate off Keelung and first headed toward Pengchia Islet, about 30 nautical miles away.

   • 2021 [2003], Yi-Chin Lo, translated by Jeremy Tiang, Faraway: A Novel‎^[6], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page [7]:

     Between July and August of that year, the Chinese Second Artillery Corps carried out missile tests near Pengchia Islet, just 155 kilometers from Taipei.

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