Juifang

J8U1I1F4A1N1G2

A form of Ruifang — A district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Ruifang.

    Nine workers were killed and three seriously injured Friday in an explosion in a coal mine at Juifang in northeast Formosa.

    1961 September 2, “9 Killed in Blast”, in The Kingston Daily Freeman, volume XC, number 269, Kingston, NY, page 16, column 2
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    One rural area, Jenai township, and one industrial locality, Juifang, showed population decreases. Jenai, a mountainous area, decreased in part because of the population movement of Aborigines to other areas.

    1954, Arthur F. Raper, Han-sheng Chuan, Shao-hsing Chen, “Current Benchmarks for Urban and Rural Taiwan”, in Urban and Industrial Taiwan―Crowded and Resourceful, Taipei: Good Earth Press, →OCLC, page 336

    Late last month, 34 miners were trapped in a flooded pit at Juifang near Taipei, and the search for bodies is still continuing.

    Free China Weekly

    1980 April 6, “Better living standards for industrial workers”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XXI, number 13, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 2

    Prime Minister Yu Kuo-hwa went to the mine, near Juifang, to supervise rescue efforts. He was joined by the Economics and Interior Ministers.

    1984 July 11, “133 TAIWAN MINERS ARE TRAPPED BY FIRE DEEP INSIDE TUNNEL”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015

    Not far south of Keelung is the small inland town of Juifang, the jumping-off point for one of northern Taiwan’s most picturesque getaways.

    2003, Vivien Kim, editor, Taiwan (Insight Guides), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 171

    At about 17 on July 26, he Airborne Service Corp, MOI received an emergency task inform from the Fire Agency of New Taipei City: “A climber went up the mountain from somewhere nearby Juifang district and carelessly fell over when climbing the 381 peak of Chienlungleng, Panping Mountain.

    2015 August 6, “On July 26, 2015, a search & rescue mission for a climber at the Juifang Mountainous Area”, in National Airborne Service Corps [內政部空中勤務總隊全球資訊網], archived from the original on 14 Oct 2022

Origin

Borrowed from Mandarin 瑞芳 (Ruìfāng) Wade–Giles romanization: Jui⁴-fang¹.

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APA

Juifang. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Juifang

MLA

“Juifang.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Juifang. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Juifang,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Juifang.

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