高雄市

Gāoxióngshì

proper noun

Meanings

1 Kaohsiung (special municipality in southern Taiwan; Taiwan's second-largest city and largest port)

Characters

Examples

HSK 4

我们从高雄市坐高铁去台北。

Wǒmen cóng Gāoxióngshì zuò gāotiě qù Táiběi.

We took the high-speed rail from Kaohsiung to Taipei.

HSK 6

高雄市是台湾重要的港口城市。

Gāoxióngshì shì Táiwān zhòngyào de gǎngkǒu chéngshì.

Kaohsiung is an important port city of Taiwan.

Tips

history

The name 高雄 dates from 1920, a Japanese-era rendering of the indigenous Makatao name Takau (打狗, 'beat the dog' in Han characters). The Japanese re-wrote it with more elegant kanji 高雄 (Takao, also a Kyoto place name). In Mandarin the same characters read Gāoxióng, and the name stuck after 1945.

Stroke Order

高 gāo

雄 xióng

市 shì