Nansi

English

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 南四.

Proper noun

Nansi

1. A lake in Jining, Shandong, China.
   • 2014 March 21, “Nansi Lake, China”, in NASA‎^[3], archived from the original on 02 July 2019‎^[4]:

     Nansi Lake is also part of the South-North Water Transfer Project, a multi-billion dollar effort to move Yangtze River water through canals and reservoirs into the Yellow River watershed in arid northern China. Nansi Lake helps convey some of that water and serves as a storage point on the project’s eastern route, which began operating in December 2013.

   • 2020 March, Guodong Zhang, Xiaohuii Liu, Shaoyang Lu, Jinpeng Zhang, Weiliang Wang, “Occurrence of typical antibiotics in Nansi Lake’s inflowing rivers and antibiotic source contribution to Nansi Lake based on principal component analysis-multiple linear regression model”, in Chemosphere‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on February 22, 2024‎^[6]:

     Nansi Lake is also a recipient of medical, sewage treatment plant, livestock and aquaculture wastewater, which are the major sources of antibiotic pollution. In 2009, the aquaculture area of the Nansi Lake Basin reached 735.01 km2 with 0.495 million fishery products, and the numbers of cows, pigs and chickens were 0.95, 7.2 and 105 million heads, respectively (Wang et al., 2015). According to the report, the amount of antibiotics in medical wastewater in Jining is as high as μg·L−1 (Sun, 2015), and antibiotics have been found in pig faeces from a farm in Heze, which had the highest concentration of 764.4 mg kg−1 (Pan et al., 2011). The wastewater is mainly transmitted through inflowing rivers into Nansi Lake, and approximately 200,000 m3 of domestic sewage and 600,000 m3 of industrial wastewater are discharged every day (Wang et al., 2016a, 2016b).

Etymology 2

From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 楠西 (Nánsi, literally “west of Nanzihsian River”).

Alternative forms

• Nanhsi, Nan-hsi (Wade–Giles)
• Nanxi (Hanyu Pinyin)

Proper noun

Nansi

1. A district of Tainan, Taiwan.
   • 2012, Yu-Chen Lin, Tzong-Yeang Lee, Hung-Chih Shih, “Assessment of the Vulnerability and Risk of Climate Change on Water Supply and Demand in Taijiang Area”, in International Journal of Environmental and Ecological Engineering‎^[7], volume 6, number 7, →DOI, →OCLC, page 400:

     The vulnerability of Annan, North, West Central, Rende, and Nansi is ranked as secondary high, and the vulnerability of Baihe, Danei, Yujing, and South is intermediate.

   • 2014, S. Sengupta et al., “Spatial variation of groundwater arsenic distribution in the Chianan Plain, SW Taiwan: Role of local hydrogeological factors and geothermal sources”, in Journal of Hydrology‎^[8], volume 518, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 401:

     Samples from Jhongpu, Fanlu, Nansi and Yuzing show an average tritium concentration of 1.33 TU (Table 4), which is marginally lower than the precipitation of Central Taiwan (1.6 TU)reported by Peng et al. (2007).

   • 2014, Robert Kelly, Chung Wah Chow, Taiwan‎^[9], 9th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 253:

     It's 25km of rolling pitch from the start of the 175 to Nansi.

   • 2015 June 9, “Tapani Incident centennial marked by Tainan City”, in Taiwan Today‎^[10], archived from the original on 11 November 2020:

     The bold attacks launched by armed insurgents against police stations incurred the wrath of the Japanese authorities and escalated into large-scale conflicts spanning the districts of Nanhua, Nansi, Yujing and Zuozhen.

   • 2018 August 6, “Brief Introduction of Nansi”, in Nansi District Office, Tainan City‎^[11], archived from the original on 16 February 2022:

     The Nansi District was formerly known as the "Jiaba Community", and was one of the early territories of the Taivoan, as well as where the Zou resided. Later, due to the invasion of the Siraya tribe, the community members later migrated out to regions such as Gongguan, Paoziliao (Kaohsiung County), and Daciouyuan. During the time of the Japanese occupation, because of its location at the west of the "Nanzihsian River", it was therefore renamed Nansi ("si" meaning "west"). A village and village hall were established here, under the governance of Sinhua District of Tainan Province. After the war in 1945, it was renamed Nansi Township, and was changed to Nansi District after the merging of Tainan City and County on December 25th, 2010.

   • 2018 August 25, “Floods displace more than 1,000”, in Taipei Times‎^[12], archived from the original on 24 August 2018:

     City government data showed that some districts were inundated with more than 600mm of rain over 24 hours, with Nansi District (楠西) receiving 700mm.

   • 2019 December 13, “Exhibition of Achievements of [NCKU BOOKS-ONE CITY] Mobile Library”, in National Cheng Kung University‎^[13], archived from the original on 5 August 2020:

     Department of History student Yun-Pei Lien, who had gone to Nansi Junior High School, admitted that she had previously known nothing about Nansi District.

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

Translations

district in south Taiwan

• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 楠西 (Lâm-se)

  Mandarin: 楠西 (zh) (Nánxī)

Anagrams

• NINAs, Ninas, Nisan, ninas

Welsh

Proper noun

Nansi

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Nancy