Shilin District (traditional Chinese: 士林區; Tongyong Pinyin: Shìhlín Cyu; Hanyu Pinyin: Shìlín Qū; Wade-Giles: Shih-lin Ch'ü; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sū-lîm Khu) is a district of Taipei. The name "Shilin" was derived from Pattsiran, the Ketagalan word for "hot spring". It was then transliterated into Chinese as "八芝蘭" Bāzhīlán, and finally re-analyzed as "scholars as many as the trees in the woods" (士多如林).
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