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Qilai Mountain (Chinese :奇萊山; Hanyu Pinyin :Qílái shān; Tongyong Pinyin :Cílái shan) is a mountain in Xiulin, Hualien, Taiwan. Its highest point of the range, the Northern Peak, is 3,607 m (11,834 ft) above sea level. [1] It is named after the Sakizaya people.

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Traditional Chinese characters are Chinese characters in any character set that does not contain newly created characters or character substitutions performed after 1946. They are most commonly the characters in the standardized character sets of Taiwan, of Hong Kong and Macau, and in the Kangxi Dictionary. The modern shapes of traditional Chinese characters first appeared with the emergence of the clerical script during the Han Dynasty, and have been more or less stable since the 5th century.

Hanyu Pinyin, often abbreviated to pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese in mainland China and to some extent in Taiwan. It is often used to teach Standard Mandarin Chinese, which is normally written using Chinese characters. The system includes four diacritics denoting tones. Pinyin without tone marks is used to spell Chinese names and words in languages written with the Latin alphabet, and also in certain computer input methods to enter Chinese characters.

Tongyong Pinyin was the official romanization of Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan between 2002 and 2008. The system was unofficially used between 2000 and 2002, when a new romanization system for Taiwan was being evaluated for adoption. Taiwan's Ministry of Education approved the system in 2002, but its use was optional. Since January 1, 2009, Tongyong Pinyin has no longer been official because of the Ministry of Education's approval of Hanyu Pinyin on September 16, 2008.

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  1. ↑ The Republic of China Yearbook 2014. Executive Yuan. 2014. p. 43. ISBN   978-986-04-2302-0.

Coordinates: 24°5′9.6″N121°19′22.8″E / 24.086000°N 121.323000°E / 24.086000; 121.323000

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