Nanhsi

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 楠西 (Nánxī) Wade–Giles romanization: Nan²-hsi¹.

Proper noun

Nanhsi

1. Alternative form of Nansi
   • 1981, A Pictorial History of the Republic of China: Its Founding and Development‎^[1], volume II, Taipei: Modern China Press, →OCLC, page 416:

     The Tsengwen Reservoir, located at Nanhsi village, Tainan, was completed in 1973.

   • 1994, Roger Grigsby, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China's East Coast (China by Bike)‎^[2], The Mountaineers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 108:

     After Nanhsi, head into the hills again as you skirt Tsengwen Reservoir on a roller coaster of steep grades.

   • 1998, Shui-Beih Yu, Horng-Yue Chen, “Strain Accumulation in Southwestern Taiwan”, in Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences‎^[3], volume 9, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 October 2022, page 43:

     In order to realize how is the crustal shortening distributed, a dense GPS profile of 11 new stations was deployed along the highway from Liuchia to Nanhsi in 1993 (Figure 9).

   • 2018 December 13, Phillip Charlier, “Two Police Officers Shot and Injured in Tainan”, in Taiwan English News‎^[4], archived from the original on 15 December 2018‎^[5]:

     Officers Wang and Yan from the Yujing Police station were on patrol on a mountain road in Nanhsi Township at around 10:20pm last night when they spotted a man pushing a bicycle in the remote area.

   • 2019 August 1, “Natural Environment”, in Danei District Office‎^[6], archived from the original on 06 July 2022‎^[7]:

     Danei District is located east of Tainan City, on the border of the mountainous area with Jianan Plain, adjacent to Liuchia District on the north, Guantian and Shanhua on the west, Shanshang on the south, and Yuching and Nanhsi on the east. It has a land area of approximately 70.3125 square kilometers, with a population of more than 10,000 people.

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