Pengchia

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A form of Pengjia — An islet of Zhongzheng district, Keelung, Taiwan.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Pengjia.

    Between July and August of that year, the Chinese Second Artillery Corps carried out missile tests near Pengchia Islet, just 155 kilometers from Taipei.

    2021 [2003], Yi-Chin Lo, translated by Jeremy Tiang, Faraway: A Novel, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=Hd4MEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT48
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    Under their arrangement, Wang and Chu left Fukien in a fishing boat about 4 p.m. on Oct. 13 and, after changing boats at Pengchia Isle off the northern coast of Taiwan, arrived in Toucheng, Ilan County, the morning of Oct. 15.

    1988 October 26 [1988 October 20], “Mainland Businessmen Enter Illegally; Arrested”, in Daily Report: China, number 88-207, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taipei CHINA POST, p 11, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 69, column 1

    In an apparently related story, the PRC has announced its sudden plans to escalate its already extensive military exercises by testing missiles in the East China Sea one hundred and fifty kilometers north of Taiwan, off Taiwan-held Pengchia islet.

    1999, Karen Hulene Bartell, chapter 12, in Sovereignty of the Dragons (Fiction), Unity, Maine: Five Star, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 293

    Two coast guard patrol vessels, the Hsin Bei and the Ho-shin, were joined by the navy’s Kang Ding frigate off Keelung and first headed toward Pengchia Islet, about 30 nautical miles away.

    2014 February 27, “Exercise held in disputed waters”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jul 2018, Taiwan News, page 4

Origin

  1. Mandarin彭佳
  2. EnglishPengchia

From Mandarin 彭佳 (Péngjiā) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻêng²-chia¹.

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

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