Yingge

Ying·ge
Y4I1N1G2G2E1

proper noun

A district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Yingko

  1. A district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.

    Among the six winning NT$10 million receipts, one was issued for a drink purchase worth NT$54 sold by a Simple Mart supermarket on Yingtao Road in New Taipei's Yingge District.

    2025 January 23, Chang Ai, Ko Lin, “Receipt lottery winners urged to claim cash by March 5”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2025, Society
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    There is also another model for the organization of conflict in Chinese society, the factional model. Gallin, in one of the first analytical studies of such factionalism, shows how the breakdown of the traditional lineage-based social order of a rural township in central Taiwan led to the formation of township-wide political factions, based on personal loyalties to patron-leaders (Gallin 1966b). These factions contested elections to political office and engaged in other disputes, reaching into and dividing individual villages. Similar factions permeate the political life of Yingge township, close to Sanxia. Indeed one cannot talk to a man from Yingge for more than a few minutes without hearing stories of the factions, their disputes, and their relative success in the latest elections.

    犁舌尾

    1982, Stevan Harrell, Ploughshare Village: Culture and Context in Taiwan [犁舌尾], Seattle; London: University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 140, 218

    I LIVED IN TAIWAN for two years, one of which was spent in the town of Yingge. Yingge is small, but has a large number of factories — over 600, or about one for every ten families.

    1984 March 21, Richard Stites, “Huis and Means in Taiwan”, in CoEvolution Quarterly, number 41, Sausalito, Cali.: POINT, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18, column 1

    Huang imports specialized clay and hires painters to do patterns on the white bowls. His shop in Yingge, a Taipei suburb known for ceramics production, aims to exhibit at World Expo 2010 in Shanghai in May. After that he will set a price for the larger bowls and offer it for sale in China.

    2010 March 8, Christine Lu, Ben Tai, Ralph Jennings, “Fragile: Taiwan potter produces razor-thin bowls”, in Miral Fahmy, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2025, Lifestyle

    C is for Ceramics. C is for - Yingge? Well, not quite, but ‘Yingge is for ceramics’ is something almost any Taiwanese can chant. This little town in the very southern part of Taipei County lives by and for the production of high- and low-quality ceramic and pottery objects: everything from cupboard handles to Song-dynasty vases.

    2011 March, Robert Kelly, Joshua Samuel Brown, “Northern Taiwan”, in Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 8th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 120, column 1

Origin

  1. Mandarin鶯歌
  2. EnglishYingge

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鶯歌 (Yīnggē).

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 鶯歌 /莺歌
  • 鶯歌 /莺歌 (Yīnggē)district
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