Chinhu
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See also: chinhu
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Mandarin 金湖 (Jīnhú), Wade–Giles romanization: Chin¹-hu².
Proper noun[edit]
Chinhu
- Alternative form of Jinhu (Taiwan)
- 1963, The Invincible Island: Ten Years of Reconstruction on Kinmen[1], Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, →OCLC, pages 23, 37:
- a) Strengthening the organization of fishermen by reorganizing the Kinmen county fishermen's association and establishing five new township FA's at Chinhu, Chinsha, […]
Children of the Chincheng, Chinhu and Joint primary schools have also been supplied with milk.
- 1991 September, Chin-ju Chang, 光華 [Sinorama][2], volume 16, numbers 7-12, Government Information Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15; republished as “Kinmen Changes into its Civvies”, in Peter Eberly, transl., 台灣光華雜誌 [Taiwan Panorama][3], 1991, archived from the original on 20 October 2022, 島嶼行旅:
- Soldiers Spark a Shopping Strip: Chinhu Village, located in the southeast of the island, out of the range of the Communists' artillery shells and protected by Mt. Taiwu, was just a place of windblown rock and sand without any road to the outside, before 1958. Later, people from Chinsha and Chinning to the north started moving in, and thanks to the purchasing power of the troops stationed at Mt. Taiwu, Chungcheng Rd. and Fuhsing Rd.now bristle with two or three hundred stores--the local people call the shopping strip "Shanwai" or "over the mountain"--and Chinhu has become the latest area of prosperity on the island.
- 1994, Public Health in Republic of China[4], Department of Health, Executive Yuan, →OCLC, page 11, column 2:
- […] the prevention and control of diabetes, Chinhu Township is chosen to be the pilot community. Together with the Diabetic Education Center of Kinmen County Hospital which is financially supported by the Department, […]
- 2016 April 15, “Areas of Jurisdiction”, in 福建金門地方檢察署 [Fuchien Kinmen District Prosecutors Office][5], archived from the original on 19 May 2022[6]:
- Six towns and townships make up Kinmen County namely, Chincheng Town, Chinhu Town, Chinsha Town, Chining Township, Lieyu Township, and Wuchio Township. The total land area is 150 square kilometers with a population of about 80,000.
- 2021 January 30, “Love beyond time”, in Taipei Times[7], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 January 2021, Taiwan News[8]:
- People holding miniature public telephone booths embossed with the Chinese characters for Kinmen attend a celebration in the Father Bernard M. Druetto Memorial Park in Kinmen’s Chinhu Township yesterday to mark Druetto’s 112th birth anniversary.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chinhu.