Liuqiu

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  1. 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 ;"

  2. 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."

  3. 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."

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ryukyu

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"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 ;"

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 琉球 (Liúqiú). Doublet of Ryukyu.

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