Sandimen, Pingtung
| Sandimen Township | |||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 三地門鄉 | ||||||||||||
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| Alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 山地門 | ||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Sāndìmén Xiāng |
| Wade–Giles | San1-ti4-men2 Hsiang1 |
| Southern Min | |
| Hokkien POJ | Sam-tē-mn̂g-hiong |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Shāndìmén |
| Southern Min | |
| Hokkien POJ | Soaⁿ-tē-mn̂g |
Coordinates: 22°43′N 120°39′E / 22.717°N 120.650°E
Sandimen Township is a mountain indigenous township in Pingtung County, Taiwan. The population of the township is majority Paiwan with a substantial Rukai minority.
Ethnic Chinese settlers adapted the original Paiwan name into Hokkien (Chinese: 山豬毛; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Soaⁿ-ti-mn̂g; literally: "wild-boar bristle"; or ; Soaⁿ-tē-mn̂g; "mountains-gate"). Under Japanese rule the name was Sanchimon (Japanese: 山地門?). Following Taiwan's handover to China in 1945, the area became Sandimeng Township (三地盟鄉; Sāndìméng Xiāng) but the name was changed again in 1947 to Sandi Township (Chinese: 三地鄉; pinyin: Sāndì Xiāng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sam-tē-hiong) but the Taiwanese pronunciation of Soaⁿ-tē-mn̂g continued to be commonly used. In August 1992, the township assumed its current name.
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