Cheting District

Cheting
茄萣區
District
Qieding District [1]

Cheting District in Kaohsiung City
Country Taiwan
Region Southern Taipei
Population (January 2016)
 • Total 30,498
Website Official Website (Chinese)

Jiading District[lower-alpha 1] or Qieding District[2] (Chinese: 茄萣區; Hanyu Pinyin: Jiādìng Qū; Tongyong Pinyin: Jiadìng Cyu; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ka-tiāⁿ-khu) is a coastal suburban district in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.

Name and pronunciation

Etymology

There are two theories as the origin of the name Jiading or 茄萣 in Chinese characters. One is that it is named for a type of local mangrove. The other is that it derived from a Makattao aboriginal name, written as "Cattia" or "Cattea" by Europeans, meaning "place of many fish" (literally "ten fish"). This was then rendered as Ka-tiaⁿ-á (茄萣仔) in Taiwanese Hokkien and also written with the characters Ka-tiāⁿ (茄萣) or Ka-têng (茄藤) with both sets of characters also referring to types of Avicennia mangrove (cf. 海茄苳, 海茄朾).

The Jiading District Office with English signage reading "Jiading District Office Kaohsiung City"

Pronunciation and Romanization

The first Chinese character of the name Jiading, 茄 can be read in Mandarin Chinese as jiā or qié (in Taiwanese Hokkien, ka and kiô respectively) depending on context. Traditionally, the name was and still is pronounced Ka-tiāⁿ in Taiwanese and, following the Kuomintang takeover of Taiwan in 1945, Jīadìng (Zhuyin Fuhao: ㄐㄧㄚ　ㄉㄧㄥˋ) in Mandarin. This name was Romanized as Chiating in Wade-Giles, the system used for transliterating Taiwanese place names from 1945 until the 1990s. The later MPS II and Tongyong Pinyin used Jiading. Street signs and signs on the district office and the local elementary and junior high schools Romanize the name as Jiading.

However outside of Jiading, the pronunciation of Qiédìng (Zhuyin Fuhao: ㄑㄧㄝˊㄉㄧㄥˋ) in Mandarin is common. Buses from Kaohsiung and Tainan have the name Romanized with the non-standard "Chieding". With the adoption of Hanyu Pinyin for Taiwanese place names in 2009, the name was officially rendered as Qieding by the Ministry of the Interior. The Ministry of Education's Taiwanese Romanization System uses "Katiann". The district's website uses several non-standard spellings including "Cieding",[3] "Cheting",[4] and "Chieting".[5]

Administrative divisions

An aerial view of northern Jiading District where the Erren River reaches the Taiwan Strait; north of the river, in the left hinterground of the photo, is the South District of Tainan City

Infrastructure

Tourist attractions

Notable natives

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chieding District, Kaohsiung.

Notes

  1. ↑ See Pronunciation and Romanization section

References

  1. ↑ "Glossary of Names for Admin Divisions" (PDF). placesearch.moi.gov.tw. Ministry of Interior of the ROC. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  2. ↑ 臺灣地區鄉鎮市區級以上行政區域名稱中英對照表 Glossary of Names for Administrative Divisions. (Chinese) Accessed at Taiwan Geographic Names Information System website (English). Ministry of the Interior. 16 June 2011. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  3. ↑ 高雄市茄萣區公所
  4. ↑ Cheting District Office, Kaohsiung City
  5. ↑ Cheting District Office, Kaohsiung City
  6. ↑ http://cheting-en.kcg.gov.tw/cheting-en/CP.aspx?s=2741&cp=1&n=12818
  7. ↑ http://heritage.khcc.gov.tw/english/Heritage.aspx?KeyID=099cb598-1f70-45e7-b8f6-3b2046e2e60d
  8. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEEbzx81MuA

External links

Coordinates: 22°54′24.43″N 120°10′57.37″E / 22.9067861°N 120.1826028°E / 22.9067861; 120.1826028

  1. ↑ "Glossary of Names for Admin Divisions" (PDF). placesearch.moi.gov.tw. Ministry of Interior of the ROC. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
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