Sixian Dialect
The Sixian dialect, also known as the Sixian accent (; Sixian Hakka Romanization System: Xi ien kiongˊ / Xi ian kiongˊ; is pronounced as ien (PFS: yen) in Northern Sixian and as ian (PFS: yan) in Southern Sixian. Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Si-yen-khiông / Si-yan-khiông), is a dialect of Hakka used by Taiwanese Hakkas, and it is the most spoken dialect of Taiwanese Hakka, being used in Hakka broadcasting in many public occasions. The Sixian dialect is generally spoken in northern and southern Taiwan, with main representative regions being Taoyuan and Miaoli in the north, as well as the Liudui Region in Kaohsiung and Pingtung in the south. Taiwanese Hakka is often called ''Si Hai Yong Le Da Ping An'' (), referring to the Sixian (), Hailu (), Yongding (), Changle (), Dabu (), Raoping () and Zhao'an () dialects. Among these, the Sixian and Changle dialects originate in Jiaying Prefecture, Guangdong, established in 1733 during the Qing Dynasty under the rule of Yongzheng Emperor. Histor ...
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Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. The territories controlled by the ROC consist of 168 islands, with a combined area of . The main island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', has an area of , with mountain ranges dominating the eastern two-thirds and plains in the western third, where its highly urbanised population is concentrated. The capital, Taipei, forms along with New Taipei City and Keelung the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Other major cities include Taoyuan, Taichung, Tainan, and Kaohsiung. With around 23.9 million inhabitants, Taiwan is among the most densely populated countries in the world. Taiwan has been settled for at least 25,000 years. Ancestors of Taiwanese indigenous peoples settled the isla ...
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Miaoli
Miaoli City (Wade–Giles: ''Miao²-li⁴''; Hakka PFS: ''Mèu-li̍t-sṳ''; Hokkien POJ: ''Biâu-le̍k-chhī'' or ''Miâu-le̍k-chhī'') is a county-administered city and the county seat of Miaoli County, Taiwan. Miaoli has a relatively high percentage of Hakka people. It had the second highest residential price and the highest commercial price for land in Miaoli County as of 2004, at NT$28,601 per square meter and NT$63,317 per square meter, respectively. Etymology The name Miaoli was coined using two Hakka words, 貓貍, which phonetically approximate ''Pali'' (''Bari'') from the Taokas language. History Empire of Japan Miaoli Hsien was at first eliminated under Japanese rule. was established in 1901. It was then divided over and in 1909. From 1920 to 1945, , and six villages were under the jurisdiction of , under Shinchiku Prefecture. Republic of China On 16 August 1950, Miaoli City (then Miaoli Township) was designed as the county seat of the newly established ...
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Fu (country Subdivision)
Fu () is a traditional administrative division of Chinese origin used in the East Asian cultural sphere, translated variously as commandery, prefecture, urban prefecture, or city. They were first instituted as a regular form of administrative division of China's Tang Empire, but were later adopted in Vietnam, Japan and Korea. At present, only two ''fu'' still remain: the prefectures of Kyoto and Osaka in Japan. The term ''fu'' is currently also used in Chinese to translate the provinces of Thailand, but not those of mainland China, Taiwan or other countries. Meaning ''Fu'' (府) means an office or a command institution. The character appears in the Chinese words for "government" (政府, ''zhėngfǔ'') or "official's residence" (府邸, ''fǔdǐ''), and names of official institutions such as the "Imperial Household Department" (內務府, ''Nèiwùfǔ'') in China or "Office of the President" (總統府, ''Zǒngtǒngfǔ'') in Taiwan. Japanese language uses the Chinese character ...
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Meixian Dialect
Meixian may refer to the following places in China: * Meixian District, a district in Meizhou, Guangdong ** Meixian dialect, the local dialect of Hakka spoken there * Mei County, also known as Meixian, a county in Shaanxi * Meixian, Fujian (), town in and subdivision of Youxi County, Fujian * Meixian, Hunan (), town in and subdivision of Pingjiang County Pingjiang County () is a county in the northeast of Hunan province, China. It is the easternmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city of Yueyang. The county is located on the eastern margin of the province, the Miluo River runs thr ...

Wuhua County
Wuhua County (, Hakka: Ng-Fa) is a county under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Meizhou in the east of Guangdong Province, China. Ethno-linguistic make-up Wuhua is noted for its large Hakka population. Administrative divisions The county is responsible for the administration of 16 towns with the seat of government located in Shuizhai (). * Zhuanshui () * Tanxia () * Guotian () * Shuanghua () * Meilin () * Huayang () * Huacheng () * Zhoujiang () * Shuizhai () * Hedong () * Qiling () * Changbu () * Hengbei () * Anliu () * Mianyang () * Longcun () Climate See also * List of township-level divisions of Guangdong * Wuhua dialect The Wuhua dialect () is a major dialect of Hakka Chinese spoken in Wuhua County, . Overall, the Wuhua dialect is very similar to the prestige dialect of Hakka, the Meixian dialect. Characteristics The Wuhua dialect is characterized by the p ... References External links Official website of the Wu ...
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Eponym
An eponym is a person, a place, or a thing after whom or which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named. The adjectives which are derived from the word eponym include ''eponymous'' and ''eponymic''. Usage of the word The term ''eponym'' functions in multiple related ways, all based on an explicit relationship between two named things. A person, place, or thing named after a particular person share an eponymous relationship. In this way, Elizabeth I of England is the eponym of the Elizabethan era. When Henry Ford is referred to as "the ''eponymous'' founder of the Ford Motor Company", his surname "Ford" serves as the eponym. The term also refers to the title character of a fictional work (such as Rocky Balboa of the Rocky film series, ''Rocky'' film series), as well as to ''self-titled'' works named after their creators (such as the album The Doors (album), ''The Doors'' by the band the Doors). Walt Disney created the eponymous The Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney Com ...
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Pingyuan County, Guangdong
Pingyuan County ( postal: Pingyun; , Hakka: Phin-yen) is a county in the northeast of Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of Meizhou City. Geography Pingyuan County is located in the northeast of Guangdong province, on the border between Guangdong, Jiangxi and Fujian province. It was founded in the Ming Dynasty Jiajing in the 42nd year (year 1863). Because it is located between Wuping (in Fujian) and Anyuan County (in Jiangxi), it was named ‘Pingyuan’. Pingyuan County is under the jurisdiction of Mei County which is known as the home of standard Hakka. The total area of Pingyuan is 1381 square kilometers. Now it has 12 towns with the population of 250 thousand. Climate Ethno-linguistic make-up Pingyuan is noted for its large Hakka The Hakka (), sometimes also referred to as Hakka Han, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas are a Han Chinese subgroup whose ancestral homes are chiefly in the Hakka-speaking provincial areas of Guangdong ...
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Xingning, Guangdong
:''Xingning is also the era name for Emperor Ai of Jin, Emperor Ai of the Jin dynasty.'' Xingning (Postal romanization, postal: Hingning; , Hakka: Hinnên) is a county-level city, under the jurisdiction of Meizhou, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, China. The second largest city in east Guangdong, Xingning has an area of and a population of 1.13 million. Names Xingning was formerly known as Qichang (). History Xingning county was established in 331CE, later becoming the capital of the 10th-century Southern Han Dynasty. From its previous long-established status a county, in 1991 Xingning was upgraded to a county-level city within the municipal jurisdiction of Meizhou. Location Xingning is located in the north eastern part of Guangdong province and borders the counties of Pingyuan County, Meizhou, Pingyuan, Mei County, Guangdong, Meixian, Fengshun and Wuhua County, Wuhua in Meizhou City; Longchuan County, Guangdong, Longchuan in Heyuan, Heiyuan City and Xunwu County, Xunw ...
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Jiaoling County
Jiaoling County ( postal: Chiuling; ) is a county in the northeast of Guangdong Province, China, bordering Fujian province to the north. Under the jurisdiction of Meizhou City, it was previously known as the Zhenping County ( postal: Chenping). Ethno-linguistic make-up Jiaoling is noted for its large Hakka population. Notable people * Xie Jinyuan (謝晉元) was a Chinese nationalist military officer during second Sino-Japanese war. * Shing-Tung Yau (丘成桐), a Chinese American mathematician and the William Caspar graustein professor of mathematics at Harvard university. * Professor Xu Sheng Xin (徐聖心教授 ), a professor of Chinese language at the National Taiwan University National Taiwan University (NTU; ) is a public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1928 during Japanese rule as the seventh of the Imperial Universities. It was named Taihoku Imperial University and served d ... ( source: http://www.cl.ntu.edu.tw/web/team/te ...
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Meixian District
Meixian (, Hakka: Moiyen), formerly Meihsien, is a district (China), district of Meizhou, Meizhou City, in northeastern Guangdong, Guangdong Province, China. The county is an important Hakka settlement and is the ancestral home of many Hakka descendants living in Taiwan. History Its original name was Chengxiang county () during the southern Han Dynasty where it was first created, all the way to the Song dynasty, Song, Yuan dynasty, Yuan and Ming dynasty, Ming dynasties, and then renamed Jiaying county during the Qing dynasty. It only obtained the name Meixian in 1911 during the Xinhai Revolution. Geography Meixian almost completely surrounds Meizhou's central urban Meijiang District. This is due to the old urban core of Meixian becoming separated from the bulk of the county in the territorial reorganization following the 1949 establishment of the China, People's Republic of China, when it was given equal status. Ethno-linguistic make-up Meixian is noted for its large Hak ...
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Raoping Dialect
Raoping Hakka (; Taiwanese Hakka Romanization System: ngiau pin kagˋ gaˇ faˋ), also known as Shangrao Hakka (), is a dialect of Hakka Chinese spoken in Raoping, Guangdong, as well as Taiwan. Distribution In Raoping County, Hakka is spoken in the north, including the towns of Shangshan, Shangrao, Raoyang, Jiucun, Jianrao, and Xinfeng, as well as some villages in Hanjiang Forest Farm. As of 2005, there are 190,000 Hakka speakers in Raoping County (19% of the county's population). The distribution of Raoping Hakka in Taiwan is scattered. It is mainly spoken in Taoyuan City (Zhongli, Pingzhen, Xinwu, Guanyin, Bade), Hsinchu County (Zhubei, Qionglin), Miaoli County ( Zhuolan), and Taichung City ( Dongshi). In 2013, only 1.6% of Hakka people in Taiwan were reported to be able to communicate in the Raoping dialect. Contact with surrounding varieties Raoping Hakka has some phonological and lexical features that appear to come from contact with Teochew. Some nasalized vowel ...
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Dabu Dialect
Dabu may refer to: Places in China *Dabu County (), county in Meizhou, Guangdong *Dabu, Ruyuan County (), a town in Ruyuan County, Guangdong * Dabu, Gan County (), village in Gan County, Ganzhou, Jiangxi * Dabu, Guilin City (), village in Yanshan District, Guilin, Guangxi Other *Agob language, also called Dabu, a Papuan language spoken in Western Province, Papua New Guinea * 3611 Dabu, a minor planet discovered in 1981 See also *Dapu, Chiayi (), township in Taiwan whose name would be spelled Dabu in Pinyin *Dabu-dabu, hot and spicy condiment found in the cuisine of Manado, North Sulawesi *Dabus, fictional group from the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' Planescape setting *DABUS DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience) is an artificial intelligence (AI) system created by Stephen Thaler. It reportedly conceived two inventions. The filing of patent applications designating DABUS as inventor has led ...