溪口鄉 Xikou Township, Chiayi County

Xikou (溪口; lit. “river mouth”) Township began as 雙溪口 (Mdn. Shuangxikou; “double river mouth”), a description of its location where [today’s] Sandie (三疊溪) and Huaxing (華興溪) rivers meet to form Beigang River (北港溪).

雙 (shuang; "pair") was dropped by the Japanese authorities in 1920, leaving 溪口 (kikou; "river mouth").

Xikou St. (溪口街) in Taipei does not refer to this township but, rather, to the town (鎮; Mdn. Zhen) of the same name in China's Zhejiang Province (浙江省) that was the birth place of 5-term ROC president Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) .



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