Zhongjian Island

Partial calque of Mandarin 中建島 / 中建岛 (Zhōngjiàndǎo) via Hanyu Pinyin.

• enPR: jo͝ongʹjyěnʹ^[1]

Zhongjian Island

1. Synonym of Triton Island.
   • [1978 October 12 [1978 October 2], “Loyal Guards of the Five-Star Red Flag”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 198, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking Domestic Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: International Affairs, page A 7:

     Chungchien Island is the southernmost of the Hsisha Islands, more than 300 nautical miles from the Chinese mainland.]

   • 2014 May 16, Gong Yingchun, “Vietnam's maritime provocations against China set a dangerous course”, in South China Morning Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 May 2014, Insight & Opinion‎^[3]:

     In recent days, the Vietnamese authorities have dispatched a large number of ships, including some naval vessels, to the waters off Zhongjian Island [known by some as Triton Island], forcibly disturbing the normal drilling operations of a Chinese oil rig and ramming China's escorting civilian ships.

   • 2016 January 30, Jane Perlez, “U.S. Challenges China’s Claim of Islands With Maritime Operation”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 January 2016, Asia Pacific‎^[5]:

     Triton Island, known by the Chinese as Zhongjian Island, is close to the area in the South China Sea where the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, a major energy company, moved an oil rig in 2014, resulting in a standoff between vessels of Vietnam and China, and a sharp deterioration in relations between the countries.

   • 2016 February 20, Chen Hurng-yu [陳鴻瑜], “The US in the South China Sea”, in Taipei Times‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 February 2016, Editorials, page 8‎^[7]:

     On Jan. 30, a US Navy destroyer sailed through waters within 12 nautical miles (22.22km) west of Triton Island (Jhongjian Island, 中建島), one of the Paracel Islands (Xisha Islands, 西沙群島) in the South China Sea.