Chiayi

See also: Chia-yi

English

嘉義市立博物館
Chiayi Municipal Museum

Alternative forms

• Chiai (Postal Romanization)
• Chia-i, Chia-yi (Wade–Giles)
• Jiayi (Tongyong Pinyin, Hanyu Pinyin)

Etymology

From Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 嘉義／嘉义 (Jiāyì) Wade-Giles romanization: Chia¹-yi⁴.

Pronunciation

• enPR: jē-äʹēʹ
• enPR: jyäʹyēʹ

Proper noun

Chiayi

1. A city in southwestern Taiwan.
   • 1939, “Formosans Fight for China”, in China at War‎^[2], volumes 3-4, Chungking: China Information Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 74:

     In Chiayi and Ilan peasant uprisings broke out and could not be put down until the army had taken more than 700 farmers into custody.

   • 1947 June 7, Peggy Durdin, “Taiwan : China's Unhappy Colony”, in The Nation‎^[3], volume 164, number 23, New York, page 686:

     Since many factories have not been repaired or are operating at low capacity, there is much unemployment. Repatriation of overseas Taiwanese has aggravated the problem, which the government has made no real effort to solve. During the war the Japanese built at Chiayi a large factory for making high-octane gas. Now it is closed, and one-fifth of the town's population are out of work. It is not surprising that at Chiayi last month there was fierce fighting against the mainlanders.

   • 1985 July 15, Andrew Tanzer, “Y.C. Wang gets up very early in the morning”, in Forbes‎^[4], volume 136, number 2, page 91:

     Thus one of C. L. Yang's teams recently spent three months studying the efficiency of the PVC and polyurethane (PU) packaging divisions of Nan Ya. By the time they left, 272 jobs had been eliminated and $7.45 million saved per year on materials. The same approach halved the steam used by FCFC to produce a ton of rayon and tripled productivity over three years in Nan Ya's PVC pipe plant in Chiayi.

   • 2007, Stephen Keeling, Brice Minnigh, “Central Taiwan”, in The Rough Guide to Taiwan (Rough Guides)‎^[5], Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 287:

     Yeh Wang (1826-1889), a master craftsman born in Chiayi, founded the Taiwanese branch of the industry, and though his work is rare these days, you can still see some of his original figures in Ciji Temple in Syuejia near Tainan (see p.333).[...]Chiayi is still home to numerous koji craftsmen - in addition to its vibrant colours, koji is unique in that everything is handmade.

   • 2019 June 11, Julia Moskin, “A New Generation of Chefs Reframes Taiwanese Cuisine in America”, in The New York Times‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 June 2019, Food‎^[7]:

     There would also be traditional dishes associated with different regions of Taiwan, which covers 36,000 square kilometers (an area comparable to the Netherlands) and is home to more than 23.5 million people. In central Chiayi City, that would be a rice bowl topped with local chicken that’s pulled into soft shreds, and dressed with its own juices and fat.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chiayi.
2. A county of Taiwan.
   • 1980 January 13, “Continued stress on people's welfare”, in Free China Weekly‎^[8], volume XXI, number 2, Taipei, page 1:

     Under the social security program, the government will expand insurance coverage to include dependents of public functionaries, and establish more clinics in Tainan, Chiayi, and Hsinchu countries^{[sic – meaning counties]}.

   • 2014, Jerome A. Cohen, Lu Hsiu-lien, Ashley Esarey, My Fight for a New Taiwan‎^[9], University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 240:

     In my next move, I sent one of my aides to Chiayi County to sign a contract to lease a landfill.

   • 2015, Wan-yao Chou (周婉窈), translated by Carole Plackitt and Tim Casey, A New Illustrated History of Taiwan‎^[10], Taipei: SMC Publishing, →ISBN, page 160:

     In the battle of Tap'ulin (present-day Talin) in Chiayi County, the Taiwan Volunteers beat the Japanese and won back some territory, "an event unprecedented since the start of the Sino-Japanese War," which lifted the morale of the people.

   • 2018 September 3, Anna Fifield, “First day of kindergarten? Chinese school welcomes kids with a pole dancer”, in The Washington Post‎^[11], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-09-04, WorldViews‎^[12]:

     The most eye-popping example of the exotic funeral occurred in Taiwan last year, when 50 women in lingerie pole-danced on moving black cars at the funeral of politician Tung Hsiang.
     The Chiayi County Council speaker “enjoyed a buzz” so the funeral was designed to give him “a happy departure,” his son said, according to reports.

   • 2021 January 16, Lin Chia-nan, “Planned science parks in Chiayi, Pingtung panned”, in Taiwan News‎^[13], archived from the original on 15 January 2021:

     While the Executive Yuan is considering setting up science parks in Pingtung and Chiayi counties, there is some criticism about whether science parks are needed in every city and county.

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

Synonyms

• (from Pe̍h-ōe-jī) Ka-gi

Translations

a city in Taiwan

• Arabic: جْيَائِي m (jyāʔī), جْيَايِي m (jyāyī), تْشْيَايِي m (tšyāyī), تْشْيَائِي m (tšyāʔī)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 嘉義／嘉义 (gaa¹ ji⁶)

  Hakka: 嘉義／嘉义 (Kâ-ngi)

  Hokkien: 嘉義／嘉义 (zh-min-nan) (Ka-gī)

  Mandarin: 嘉義／嘉义 (zh) (Jiāyì)

• Japanese: 嘉義 (かぎ, Kagi)
• Korean: 자이(嘉義) (Jai)
• Papora: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: Цзяи́ m (Czjaí)
• Vietnamese: Gia Nghĩa (嘉義)

Further reading

• “Chiayi” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
• Chiayi, Chia-yi, Chiai, Chia-i, Jiayi at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.