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==English==
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{{Commonscat|Zuojhen District, Tainan}}
[[File:臺南市左鎮區圖書館.jpg|thumb|{{lang|zh|左鎮區圖書館}}<br>'''Zuojhen''' District Library]]

===Alternative forms===
* {{alt|en|Tsochen|Tso-chen||Wade-Giles}}
* {{alt|en|Zuozhen||Pinyin}}

===Etymology===
From the {{bor|en|cmn-tongyong|-}}<ref>{{cite-web
|en
|year=2006
|title=Taiwan place names
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061001212733/https://pinyin.info/taiwan/place_names.html
|work=Pinyin.info
|url2=https://archive.is/bJ5X2
|text={{lang|zh|鄉鎮市區別}} / Hanyu Pinyin (recommended) / Hanyu Pinyin (with tones) / Tongyong Pinyin / old forms{{...}}{{lang|zh|左鎮鄉}} / Zuozhen / Zuǒzhèn / Zuojhen / Tsochen}}</ref> romanization of the {{bor|en|cmn|-}} Chinese pronunciation for {{zh-l|*左鎮|tr=Zuǒjhèn|}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˌ(d)zwoʊˈd͡ʒʌn/}}, {{enPR|dzôʹjǔnʹ}}

===Proper noun===
{{en-proper noun}}

# {{place|en|district|city/Tainan|c/Taiwan|formerly a rural township}}.
#* {{quote-web
|en
|date=Jun 20, 2012
|author=Meng-ting Lin
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120622032724/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/lang/archives/2012/06/20/2003535758
|title=World’s largest seashell on display at Tsailiao Fossil Museum
|trans-title=世界最大貝殼　菜寮化石館展出
|work=w:Taipei Times
|issn=1563-9525
|oclc=464696902
|section=Bilingual Pages
|page=11
|url2=https://archive.is/C2esX
|text=The exhibit will be on display at the Tsailiao Fossil Museum in '''Zuojhen''' District until September 23.
|origtext=zh:{{lang|zh|「貝殼之美」特展近日至九月二十三日於左鎮菜寮化石館展出，{{...}}}}}}
#* {{quote-web
|en
|year=2017
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170804044008/http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aeco/201706160024.aspx
|archivedate=4 August 2017
|title=Taiwan's mango exports to set new record in 2017
|author=Yang Shu-min; Frances Huang
|work=w:Focus Taiwan
|text=In addition, a group of ice shops in downtown Tainan and the districts of Danei, Yujing and '''Zuojhen''' will start selling deserts made using mango so consumers can enjoy fresh mango ice products during the hot summer days.}}
#* {{quote-journal
|en
|year=2017
|url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/2089913173?pq-origsite=gscholar
|title=Absolute gravity change in Taiwan: Present result of geodynamic process investigation
|author=Ricky Kao; Cheinway Hwang; Jeong Woo Kim; Kuo-En Ching; Frédéric Masson; Wen-Chi Hsieh; Nicolas Le Moigne; Ching-Chung Cheng
|work=Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
|doi=10.3319/TAO.2017.06.13.01
|page=857
|text=AG7 is located on the eastern side of '''Zuojhen''' Fault in western foothills. '''Zuojhen''' Fault is a left-lateral fault lying in the northwest-southeast direction across the township{{sic|district}} of '''Zuojhen'''.}}
#* {{quote-journal
|en
|year=2018
|url=http://journal.julypress.com/index.php/aes/article/view/435
|title=Involving Community Volunteers in Recording Deterioration of Buildings After Disaster
|author=Chaohsing Huang; Chipang Lu; Yishan Chen
|work=Asian Education Studies
|volume=3
|issue=3
|doi=10.20849/aes.v3i3.435
|page=31
|text=The empowerment team kept emphasizing that this is the first voluntary team of this kind in the country and therefore spur their sense of honor. As people had to go to '''Zuojhen''' District from Yujing and the day of workshop bumped into busy farming seasons, participants of the forth workshop were fewer.}}
#* {{quote-book
|en
|year=2019
|author=Ahmed Sayeed
|title=Negate Fighting Faith
|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Negate_Fighting_Faith/IGnQDwAAQBAJ
|location=[[Chhattisgarh]], [[India]]
|publisher=Sankalp Publications
|ISBN=978-93-88660-79-2
|pages=101–102
|text=In 1972, fragmentary fossils of anatomically modern humans were found at Chouqu and Gangzilin, in '''Zuojhen''' District, Tainan, in fossil beds exposed by erosion of the Cailiao River.}}
#* {{quote-web
|en
|date=2019-05-13
|author=M. Chuang
|title=Complaints Roll In on Fossil Park Opening Day
|trans-title={{lang|zh|台南左鎮化石園區 開幕人潮破萬}}
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230903092834/https://news.pts.org.tw/article/431547
|archivedate=03 September 2023
|url=https://news.pts.org.tw/article/431547
|work=w:Public Television Service
|url2=https://archive.ph/cXU0u
|text=Few places in '''Zuojhen''' are able to draw such a huge crowd anymore. There was traffic congestion and few available parking spaces around here.
|origtext=zh:{{lang|zh|在左鎮這邊已經很少會有這麼熱鬧的地方，可是我發現來的時候有塞車，然後周邊沒有很好的停車位，{{...}}}}}}
#* {{quote-web
|en
|date=Nov 23, 2020
|author=Yu-hsin Hsiao; William Hetherington
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128135303/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2020/11/23/2003747432
|archivedate=28 November 2020
|title=Chunghwa to trial delivery by UAV
|work=w:Taipei Times
|issn=1563-9525
|oclc=464696902
|section=Taiwan News
|page=3
|url2=https://archive.is/I7Xgo
|text=The move is part of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications’ push to increase the commercial use of drones, the institute said, adding that the postal company previously tested UAVs for mail delivery in Tainan’s '''Zuojhen''' District ({{lang|zh|左鎮}}) and on Alishan.<br>In Tainan, the drones carried 5kg shipments of peaches from farms in the district to the '''Zuojhen''' Post Office, cutting what is typically a 90-minute truck route to 15 minutes, it said.}}
#* {{seemoreCites|en}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|district in southern Taiwan}}
* Chinese:
*: Hokkien: {{t|nan-hbl|左鎮|tr=Chó-tìn}}
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|左鎮|tr=Zuǒzhèn}}
{{trans-bottom}}

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