Tongxiao Station 通霄車站  | |
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| Train station | |
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| Location | Tongxiao, Miaoli County, Taiwan |
| Owned by | Taiwan Railways Administration |
| Operated by | Taiwan Railways Administration |
| Line(s) | West Coast |
| Train operators | Taiwan Railways Administration |
| History | |
| Opened | 11 October 1922 |
| Traffic | |
| Passengers | 1,802 daily (2014) [1] |
Tongxiao (Chinese :通霄車站; Hanyu Pinyin :Tōngxiāo Chēzhàn; Tongyong Pinyin :Tongsiao Chejhàn) is a railway station on the Taiwan Railways Administration West Coast line (Coastal line) located in Tongxiao Township, Miaoli County, Taiwan.
Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases not mutually intelligible, language varieties, forming the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Chinese is spoken by the Han majority and many minority ethnic groups in China. About 1.2 billion people speak some form of Chinese as their first language.
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.
