Yenshui
English
editEtymology
editFrom the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 鹽水 (Yen²-shui³).
Proper noun
editYenshui
- Alternative form of Yanshuei
- 2003, Leland Gregory, Hey, Idiot![3], Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 89:
- To commemorate the hundred-year anniversary of eliminating the plague, citizens of Yenshui, Taiwan, held a celebration with fireworks.
- 2010 February 27, “Fireworks festival in Tainan County unveiled with deafening fanfare”, in Focus Taiwan[4], archived from the original on 24 September 2022, Culture:
- An annual two-day fireworks festival -- the Yenshui Beehive Fireworks Festival -- opened in the town of the same name in southern Taiwan's Tainan County Saturday morning and will culminate in a finale on Sunday night.
- 2015 December 21, Wei-han Chen, “Tonnes of toxic slag found dumped in Chiayi County”, in Taipei Times[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 July 2018, Front Page, page 1[6]:
- The slag was reportedly dumped at the site by members of a nearby temple. It was sourced from a contractor at Walsin Lihwa Co’s (華新麗華) steel plant in Tainan’s Yenshui District (鹽水) and was to be used in the construction of a parking lot, said Chung Hwa University of Medical Technology professor Huang Huan-chang (黃煥彰), who exposed the incident.
- 2016 March 12, Jason Pan, “Police probe apparent suicide pact”, in Taipei Times[7], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-03-12, Taiwan News, page 5[8]:
- Police are investigating an apparent suicide pact following the discovery of four bodies in Tainan’s Yenshui District (鹽水) on Wednesday.
- 2019 November 28 [2018], tango42, “Tainan Yenshui Beehive Fireworks Festival 18-19 Feb 2019 鹽水蜂炮節”, in Forumosa[9], archived from the original on 20 January 2021:
- It appears to be Thursday March 1 2018 sandwiched between 228 Holiday and Lantern festival Holiday making for what could be a long 5 day weekend for some people. (Yenshui seems to be used more than Yanshui for the event title even though event is in Yanshui)
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yenshui.
Translations
editYanshuei — see Yanshuei
Further reading
edit- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yenshui”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[10], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2122, column 2
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yenshui”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[11], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3525, column 2