Meanings
alternative Hsinwu · alternative Sinwu
- A district of Taoyuan, Taiwan.
The accident reportedly took place late Saturday, as the men returned to shore after wading out into the waters near Yongan Fishing Port in Taoyuan's Xinwu District to perform a ritual to send away the evils and diseases while praying for peace and good fortune.
2022 August 14, Jui-chi Wu, Chao Yen-hsiang, “Taoyuan Ghost Festival accident leaves 3 dead, 1 in coma”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2022, Society2 more examples
Soap maker Mary & Majestic Inc (美琪生技) yesterday said that it will spend NT$700 million (US$23.12 million) to build a new factory in Xinwu Township (新屋鄉), Taoyuan County, in April, aiming to increase its annual revenue to between NT$1 billion and NT$1.5 billion from the current NT$500 million in the next five years.
2014 February 19, Camaron Kao, “Mary & Majestic to build new factory in Taoyuan”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2015, Business, page 13After the removal of an elected official in Hualien with household registration in China, Taoyuan is mulling the dismissal of a local borough chief who failed to renounce her Chinese citizenship. Peng Hsiao-lin (彭小林), the chief of Hejian Borough in Taoyuan’s Xinwu District is a Chinese spouse who has resided in Taiwan for 32 years, reported LTN.
2025 August 3, Duncan DeAeth, “Taoyuan mulls removing Chinese spouse from office as borough chief”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2025, Politics
Origin
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 新屋 (Xīnwū).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 新屋
- 新屋 (san¹ uk¹)district
Chinese Mandarin 新屋
- 新屋 (Xīnwū)district
Cite this entry
Xinwu. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Xinwu
“Xinwu.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Xinwu. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Xinwu,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Xinwu.
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