Liuying

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A form of Liouying — A district of Tainan, Taiwan.

OriginMandarin 柳營 →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Liouying.

    The Teh Yuen Pei Reservoir project will rehabilitate a damaged reservoir, built in the Ching Dynasty, at Liuying, Tainan, a tributary of Chishui Creek.

    1956, General Report of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 115
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    Theoretically, all descendants of Lai Yüan are entitled to some share in the profits of this estate, which currently consists of 1.7 hectacres of land located in neighboring Liuying township.

    1972, Burton Pasternak, Kinship & Community in Two Chinese Villages, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 89

    The Tainan county government has also started to build a tourism network to include Hutoupei (Tigerhead Parapet) in Hsinhua and Chienshan-pei (Point-mountain Parapet) in Liuying.

    1981 December 13, “Scenery, relics in Tainan”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 49, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2

    Additionally, a 20-year-old man fractured his upper-right arm, suffered lacerations on his forehead, and reported pain in his buttocks; a 21-year-old man had a swollen left cheek and pain in his right ankle. The two were sent to the Chi Mei Hospital in Liuying, Tainan, CNA reported.

    2021 November 20, Stephanie Chiang, “South Taiwan early-morning freeway accident injures 7”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 20 Nov 2021

    A worker tends to a water buffalo at an animal sanctuary in Tainan’s Liuying District yesterday. The animal, which was named A-hua, was rescued by sanctuary personnel earlier this year.

    2023 July 5, “Good news”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2023, Taiwan News, page 3

Origin

  1. Mandarin柳營
  2. EnglishLiuying

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 柳營 (Liu³-ying²).

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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