Banqiao

See also: bǎnqiáo and Bǎnqiáo

English

Alternative forms

• Panchiao, Pan-chiao, Pan-ch'iao (Wade–Giles)
• Banciao (Tongyong Pinyin, Taiwan)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 板橋／板桥 (Bǎnqiáo).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbɑːnˈt͡ʃjaʊ/

Proper noun

Banqiao

1. A district, the administrative seat of New Taipei City, Taiwan.
   • 2003, Chen-shan Ellen Wang, “The New Restoration Project”, in Historic Preservation in Taiwan: The Restoration of Tainan Da Tianhou Gong‎^[2] (Thesis), University of Pennsylvania, →OCLC, page 56:

     As mentioned in the first chapter, entrusting university professors as chief managers for restoration projects of national cultural assets has been patterned after the project of Lin family's garden at Banqiao, Taipei County.

   • [2011, Lan-Shiang (黃蘭翔) Huang, “臺灣板橋林本源園林的真假與虛實 [The True Mingled with the False at Lin Family's Garden in Ban-chiau, Taiwan]”, in 國立臺灣大學美術史研究集刊‎^[3], volume 30, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     The principal purpose of this paper is to explain the differences of the Lin Family's Garden in Ban-chiau, Taiwan and the Gardens in South China.

     (Note: Ban-chiau is the Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II (MPS2)-derived name for Banqiao.)]

   • 2019 April 16, Yimou Lee, Anne Marie Roantree, “Foxconn's Gou says will follow order of sea goddess to run for Taiwan presidency”, in Muralikumar Anantharaman, editor, Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 2023-04-07, Consumer Products & Retail News‎^[5]:

     Gou was speaking as more than 100 people crowded into Ci Hui temple in Banqiao, New Taipei City, where the billionaire executive was born and grew up.

   • 2022 August 4, Hsiung-feng Chang, Matthew Mazzetta, “Taiwan records historically hot, dry weather in July”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[6], archived from the original on 04 August 2022, Society:

     Meanwhile, New Taipei's Banqiao District tallied 26 days in July in which the temperature rose above 35 degrees, while also reporting a record high July temperature of 39.4 degrees, according to the CWB.

2. A town in Nanzhang, Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
3. A town in Enshi, Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China.

Translations

administrative seat of New Taipei City

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 板橋／板桥 (zh) (Bǎnqiáo)

• French: Panchiao m
• German: Banqiao n
• Italian: Banqiao m
• Japanese: 板橋 (ばんきょう, Bankyō)
• Korean: 반차오 (Banchao)
• Lithuanian: Bančiao m
• Spanish: Panch'iao m
• Ukrainian: Баньцяо m (Banʹcjao)

Further reading

• Banqiao, Banciao, Panchiao, Pan-chiao, Pan-ch'iao at Google Ngram Viewer