Yungkang
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Mandarin 永康 (Yǒngkāng) Wade–Giles romanization: Yung³-kʻang¹.
Proper noun
[edit]Yungkang
- Alternative form of Yongkang
- 1981 December 13, “Scenery, relics in Tainan”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly][1], volume XXII, number 49, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 2:
- As part of the urban land consolidation program, US$2 million has been spent on consolidating 71 hectares at Yungkang with another US$6 million to be allocated to public utilities such as running water, electricity, and telecommunications.
- 1989, 社會學報[2], numbers 24-26, National Chengchi University 法學院社會學系, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 112:
- Actually, we are able to treat these two places as one because Yungkang is right next to the eastern bound of Tainan city. Yungkang has a large-scale regional hospital.
- 2018 November 1, Chun-feng Wu, Sherry Hsiao, “Eighth-grade cup stacker to take on Kuala Lumpur”, in Taipei Times[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 October 2018, Taiwan News, page 4[6]:
- Cheng Ching-er, second left, warden of Chenggong Borough in Tainan’s Yungkang District, on Monday presents student Yeh Chih-chun, second right, with donated money to pay for her trip to Kuala Lumpur to take part in an international cup-stacking contest.
- 2019 August 13, Keoni Everington, “Heavy rain alert issued in 11 counties, cities as SW Taiwan sees heavy flooding”, in Taiwan News[7], archived from the original on 13 August 2019[8]:
- Over the past 24 hours, Tainan has borne the brunt of the wet weather with 279.0 mm of rain recorded in Tainan City's Rende District, followed by 260.5 mm in Guiren District, 241.0 mm in Yungkang District, and 222.5 mm in Guanmiao District, according to the CWB.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yungkang.
Further reading
[edit]- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yungkang City”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[9], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3540, column 3