Douliu

See also: dòuliú and Dǒuliù

English

Alternative forms

• Touliu (Wade–Giles)
• Douliou (Tongyong Pinyin)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 斗六 (Dǒuliù).

Proper noun

Douliu

1. A city, the county seat of Yunlin County, Taiwan.
   • 1979 April, “The Turning Point in the Civil War”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[1], volume XVIII, number 4, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 41, column 2:

     On March 5, all the government and military institutions in Gaoxiong were occupied, and over 700 Kuomintang troops were held captive. The people’s forces from Taizhong, Douliu, Dounan, and Zhushan converged on Huwei, and regrouped into a combined force to capture Huwei airport. All the Chiang troops there surrendered.

   • 1999, Marc L. Moskowitz, Fetus-Spirits: New Ghosts in Modern Taiwan‎^[2], →OCLC, page 98:

     In Chapter 2, I briefly mentioned a women I interviewed who paid her Daoist master NT$20,000 for a three-day ceremony. She attended all three days of this ceremony at an apartment temple in the city of Douliu, about 70 kilometers south of Taizhong.

   • 2016 January 12, “In Taiwan's south, calls for independence from China entrenched as poll looms”, in Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 08 October 2022, 8 / 16:

     Supporters of Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson and presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen wave flags during a campaign rally in Douliu, Taiwan, January 11, 2016.

   • 2023 June 26, Lyla Liu, “Taiwan restaurant launches 'Godzilla' crocodile ramen”, in Taiwan News‎^[4], archived from the original on 26 June 2023, Travel & Cuisine‎^[5]:

     A restaurant in Douliu City, Yunlin County debuted its "Godzilla" ramen featuring crocodile meat as its main ingredient.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Douliu.

Synonyms

• (from Hokkien) Tau-lak

Translations

city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斗六 (zh) (Dǒuliù)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can