Meanings
alternative Pengchia · alternative P'eng-chia
- An islet of Zhongzheng district, Keelung, Taiwan.
Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou points a map of the "Taiwan-Japan Fisheries Agreement" during a monument unveiling event at Pengjia Islet, the northern most islands controlled by Taiwan, April 9, 2016.
2016 June 13, “Taiwan opposition slams former leader's travel ban to Hong Kong”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2016, World4 more examples
At exactly 9:00 a.m. on May 5, 1989, 220 fishermen in nineteen boats sailed out from Su-ao Harbor in I-lan County on Taiwan's east coast; officially, they were going to fish the waters off P'eng-chia, an island seventy nautical miles north of Taiwan.
[1996, Vivian-Lee Nyitray, “The Sea Goddess and the Goddess of Democracy”, in The Annual Review of Women in World Religions, volume IV, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, →OL, page 164In the QPE study area, we observed initially that there was a high degree of small-scale salinity and temperature features likely associated with the typhoon-enhanced river runoff (Figure 1). In addition, there was substantial cooling in the area (up to 6 degrees C. as measured at Pengjia Island) after the typhoon passed by.
2009, High-Resolution Hydrographic Surveys near the Shelfbreak in the East China Sea: Joint Studies with National Taiwan University as Part of the Quantifying, Predicting, and Exploiting Uncertainty DRI, page 2At the noon hour on April 9, President Ma Ying-jeou flew by helicopter to Pengjia Islet, where he unveiled a monument inscribed with an eight-character Chinese phrase meaning "peace in the South China Sea and our national territory secure forever." While there, the president delivered a speech in which he explained the geographic and historical relationship between the Diaoyutai Islands and Taiwan's "three northern islets" (Pengjia Islet, Mianhua Islet, and Huaping Islet), and reiterated the government's firm resolve to pursue regional peace and create "Peace in the Three Seas."
2016 April 9, “President Ma visits Pengjia Islet”, in Office of the President Republic of China (Taiwan), archived from the original on 17 Jan 2021The Chinese Wild Bird Federation (CWBF) is also conducting a feasibility study on a project to attract Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) to an island in their former range, Pengjia Island, north of Taiwan proper. As there are already populations on the nearby Diaoyutai Islands, the use of decoys and vocalizations are being explored to get the globally threatened species to return to previous breeding colonies. In the 1950's Pengjia Island used to be home to millions of breeding albatross every year.
2018, “ASIA & OCEANIA”, in Luke Einoder, editor, Pacific Seabirds, volume 45, number 2, page 75
Origin
- Mandarin彭佳
- EnglishPengjia
From the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 彭佳 (Péngjiā).
More words from Mandarin
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Chinese Cantonese 彭佳
- 彭佳islet
Chinese Mandarin 彭佳
- 彭佳 (Péngjiā)islet
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Pengjia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pengjia
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