Cheting District

Cheting 茄萣區
District
Qieding District
Cheting District in Kaohsiung City
Country	Taiwan
Region	Southern Taipei
Population (January 2016)
• Total	30,498
Website	Official Website (Chinese)

Jiading District or Qieding District (Chinese: 茄萣區; Hanyu Pinyin: Jiādìng Qū; Tongyong Pinyin: Jiadìng Cyu; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ka-tiāⁿ-khu) is a coastal suburban district in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.

Name and pronunciation

Etymology

There are two theories as the origin of the name Jiading or 茄萣 in Chinese characters. One is that it is named for a type of local mangrove. The other is that it derived from a Makattao aboriginal name, written as "Cattia" or "Cattea" by Europeans, meaning "place of many fish" (literally "ten fish"). This was then rendered as Ka-tiaⁿ-á (茄萣仔) in Taiwanese Hokkien and also written with the characters Ka-tiāⁿ (茄萣) or Ka-têng (茄藤) with both sets of characters also referring to types of Avicennia mangrove (cf. 海茄苳, 海茄朾).

The Jiading District Office with English signage reading "Jiading District Office Kaohsiung City"

Pronunciation and Romanization

The first Chinese character of the name Jiading, 茄 can be read in Mandarin Chinese as jiā or qié (in Taiwanese Hokkien, ka and kiô respectively) depending on context. Traditionally, the name was and still is pronounced Ka-tiāⁿ in Taiwanese and, following the Kuomintang takeover of Taiwan in 1945, Jīadìng (Zhuyin Fuhao: ㄐㄧㄚ　ㄉㄧㄥˋ) in Mandarin. This name was Romanized as Chiating in Wade-Giles, the system used for transliterating Taiwanese place names from 1945 until the 1990s. The later MPS II and Tongyong Pinyin used Jiading. Street signs and signs on the district office and the local elementary and junior high schools Romanize the name as Jiading.

However outside of Jiading, the pronunciation of Qiédìng (Zhuyin Fuhao: ㄑㄧㄝˊㄉㄧㄥˋ) in Mandarin is common. Buses from Kaohsiung and Tainan have the name Romanized with the non-standard "Chieding". With the adoption of Hanyu Pinyin for Taiwanese place names in 2009, the name was officially rendered as Qieding by the Ministry of the Interior. The Ministry of Education's Taiwanese Romanization System uses "Katiann". The district's website uses several non-standard spellings including "Cieding", "Cheting", and "Chieting".

Administrative divisions

An aerial view of northern Jiading District where the Erren River reaches the Taiwan Strait; north of the river, in the left hinterground of the photo, is the South District of Tainan City

• Baiyun Village (白雲里 Mandarin: Báiyún Lǐ; Taiwanese: Pe̍h-hûn Lí)
• Baoding Village (保定里 Bǎodìng Lǐ; Pó-tiāⁿ Lí)
• Dading Village (大定里 Dàdìng Lǐ; Tāi-tiāⁿ Lí)
• Fude Village (福德里 Fúdé Lǐ; Hok-tek Lí)
• Guangding Village (光定里 Guāngdìng Lǐ; Kong-tiāⁿ Lí)
• Hexie Village (和協里 Héxié Lǐ; Hô-hia̍p Lí)
• Jia'an Village (嘉安里 Jiā'ān Lǐ; Ka-an Lí)
• Jiaci Village (嘉賜里 Jiācì Lǐ; Ka-sù Lí)
• Jiading Village (嘉定里 Jiādìng Lǐ; Ka-tiāⁿ Lí)
• Jiafu Village (嘉福里 Jiāfú Lǐ; Ka-hok Lí)
• Jiale Village (嘉樂里 Jiālè Lǐ; Ka-lo̍k Lí)
• Jiatai Village (嘉泰里 Jiātài Lǐ; Ka-thài Lí)
• Jiding Village (吉定里 Jídìng Lǐ; Kiat-tiāⁿ Lí)
• Qilou Village (崎漏里 Qílòu Lǐ; Kiā-làu Lí)
• Wanfu Village (萬福里 Wànfú Lǐ; Bān-hok Lí)

Infrastructure

• Hsinta Power Plant

Tourist attractions

• Lovers Wharf
• Tourist Fish Market
• Kuo Chang-hsi Knife and Sword Museum

Notable natives

• Lin Yi-shih, former Secretary-General of Executive Yuan

See also

• Kaohsiung

External links

• Cheting District Office, Kaohsiung City
• http://placesearch.moi.gov.tw/translate/Admin1000616.pdf