Liuchiu

Proper noun

Liuqiu

1. Synonym of Ryukyu (“island chain”): the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • There is moreover in the woods marvelous ſtore of Braſil and Ebony, wherewith an hundred Juncks are every year laden to be tranſported to China, Hainan, the Lequios, Camboya and Camphaa ;[1663, The Voyages and Adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, page 285

   Synonyms:

   Ryukyu

2. A rural township of Pingtung County, Taiwan, encompassing Liuqiu Island.
   • With the coming of the bluefin tuna fishing season, a Liuqiu Township-based fishing boat caught the county's first tuna fish of this year, CNA reported.2022 April 10, George Liao, “'First tuna fish’ caught in Pingtung this year sells for over NT$2 million in southern Taiwan auction”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2022
3. The island of Liuqiu, Pingtung County, Taiwan.
   • Much of the ocean they surveyed last summer was above 30 degrees Celsius for three months. The worst area was in Little Liuqiu, a coral island off the southwest coast in the Taiwan Strait where 55 percent of corals have now been seriously bleached.2021 January 13, “'Corals are being cooked': A third of Taiwan's reefs are dying”, in France 24, archived from the original on 13 Jan 2021