Pintofng Chi

Pintofng-chi 🔊 (Pingtung City)

Some history

• originally a village of the Taiwanese Plains Aborigines which they called "Akau", meaning "forest"
• After the expulsion of the Dutch, the village grew into a Chinese market-town called Akaau 🔊 (阿猴).
• This name was then transferred into the 1901 Japanese-era administrative region called Akō Chō (阿猴廳) and then the 1909 Akō Chō (阿緱廳, modified Kanji).
• Beginning in 1920, the name was changed to Heitō Town (Jidguo: 屏東街 Heitō-gai)

ZK

• Governor-General of Taiwan (1931-1932). "a-kâu (阿緱)", in Ogawa Naoyoshi, ed. 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese and Taiwanese) 1. Taihoku: 同府 [Dōfu]. p. 3.