Zuoying

Zuo·ying
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proper noun

A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

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proper noun

alternative Tsoying · alternative Tso-ying · alternative Tso Ying

  1. A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

    During a visit to the navy’s main base in Tsoying, also spelled Zuoying, Tsai oversaw the signing of a memorandum of understanding on the construction of submarines.

    2017 March 21, “Taiwan announces plan to build own submarines”, in AP News, archived from the original on 08 Oct 2022
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    In the suburb of Tsoying (zuǒyíng) are two magnificent temples within a 10-minute walk of each other. Both are on the shore of a lake. The Spring Autumn Temple (chūn qiū gé) has a unique design and includes two pagodas that extend into the lake.

    [1994 July, Robert Storey, “South-West Taiwan”, in Taiwan - A Travel Survival Kit, 3rd edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 241

    In their senior year, Zhang Zewei had been sent back from the military outpost on Jinmen and reassigned to serve in Zuoying, a more comfortable posting in a small town in the south.

    2001, He An, “Andante”, in Patricia Sieber, transl., edited by Patricia Sieber, Red is Not the Only Color: Contemporary Chinese Fiction on Love and Sex between Women, Collected Stories, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 178

    In the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung a category killer may have a store in the northern part of town in the district called Nanzih and the management would name its outlet after the district: Nanzih Store. In this case the problem would be that many target customers living just 7 or 8 minutes away would not shop there, for reasons in large part psychological and first-degree. Because they live in Zuoying district, for example, they will feel that if the store is in another district, it is probably cumbersome to go all the way.

    2011, Laurent Sausset, “What Location Means in Asian Markets”, in Shopping Behavior in Asia, Paramount Market Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 72

    Set in Zuoying District, in the northeast of Kaohsiung, the largest city of Taiwan Island lays adjacent to Zuoying Harbor to the west and north of Nanzi District. With approximately 59 Taiwanese Veterans' Villages near Kaohsiung (Chen 2006, p. 1),² 23 find themselves in Zuoying.³

    2018, “Cultural Memory in Mainland Immigrants' Settlement of Taiwan: A Case Study of Zuoying Naval Veteran's Villages”, in Dynamics of Community Formation: Developing Identity and Notions of Home, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 63

    In a verdict issued Thursday, the High Court said that at the time of the crime, Yang was living in Kaohsiung's Zuoying District and the sole caregiver of 1-year-old and 5-month-old daughters.

    2022 October 20, Yi-ning Tseng, Matthew Mazzetta, “Mother receives 7.5 year sentence for death of infant left home alone”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2022, Society

    Synonyms: Saei

Synonyms & antonyms

proper nounA district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

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Origin

  1. Mandarin左營
  2. EnglishZuoying

From Mandarin 左營 (Zuǒyíng, literally “left barracks”).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 左營 /左营
  • 左營 /左营 (zo² jing⁴)district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Chinese Mandarin 左營 /左营
  • 左營 /左营 (Zuǒyíng)district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Zuoying. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Zuoying

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“Zuoying.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Zuoying. Accessed November 3, 2026.

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Zuoying,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Zuoying.

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