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Wuciou

Wuciou is the alternative form of Wuqiu.

Meaning of Wuqiu

Proper noun

Wuqiu

  1. A rural township of Kinmen County, Taiwan.
    • Wuqiu (population: 642) lies midway between Kinmen and Matsu, 9km from the nearest PRC-held territory. Save for the ROC servicemen posted there, very few outsiders have been able to visit Wuqiu and obtaining permission to go there is practically impossible.2014, Steven Crook, Taiwan (Bradt Travel Guides), →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 309
  2. An island group making up Wuqiu, Kinmen County, Taiwan, originally part of Putien (Putian).
    • In January 1997, Taiwan rejected South Korean demands that it not ship its nuclear waste to North Korea for treatment and storage. The PRC intervened to extract maximum political capital from the dispute, offering to take the Taiwanese nuclear waste on condition that the island be considered an...2001, Elizabeth Economy, “The Greening of East Asia: The Quest to Tackle Environmental Dilemmas”, in Julian Weiss, editor, Tigers' Roar: Asia's Recovery and its Impact, East Gate Books, →ISBN, →LCCN...
    Synonyms:
    Ockseu

Origin of Wuciou

The Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 烏坵 (Wūqiū) Tongyong Pinyin romanization: Wuciou.

Questions about Wuciou

What is Wuciou the alternative form of?
Wuciou is the alternative form of Wuqiu.

Words near Wuciou in the dictionary

  1. Wuchou
  2. Wuchow
  3. Wuchuan
  4. Wuchung
  5. Wuci
  6. Wuciou
  7. wuckas
  8. wuckaz
  9. wuckers
  10. wuckies
  11. wuckin'

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Wuciou (page history and authors); Wuqiu (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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