艋舺

Měngjiǎ
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Monga, old name of the Wanhua area of Taipei

Examples

HSK 4
Wǒmen zài Měngjiǎ guàng le yí xiàwǔ lǎojiē.
We spent the whole afternoon wandering the old streets of Monga.
HSK 7-9
Měngjiǎ de Lóngshān Sì yǐjing yǒu jiāngjìn sānbǎi nián de lìshǐ le.
Monga's Longshan Temple is nearly three hundred years old.

Tips

history
The name comes from the Ketagalan word for a canoe, Báng-kah in Taiwanese Hokkien, after the boats that traded on the river here. It was Taipei's first busy port; under Japanese rule the name was rewritten as 万华, today's 万华区.
usage
舺 is read jiǎ in this name, as in Taiwan, and is used in no other word; some dictionaries give the character the reading xiá.

In Pop Culture

艋舺 Měngjiǎ
Monga
2010 Taiwanese film by Doze Niu about teenage gangs in 1980s Monga, one of the year's biggest box-office hits in Taiwan.

Stroke Order

艋 měng
舺 xiá