Sihhu

English

Yunlin County Sihhu Township Office

Alternative forms

• Ssuhu (Wade–Giles)
• Sihu (Hanyu Pinyin)

Etymology

From Mandarin 四湖 (Sìhú), Tongyong Pinyin romanization: Sìhhú.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uː

Proper noun

Sihhu

1. A rural township in Yunlin County, Taiwan.
   • 2005, Annual Report‎^[3], Council of Agriculture, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 26:

     Peanut fields in Sihhu Township, Yunlin County were polluted.

   • 2009 June 8, “Report links naphtha cracker emissions with cancer rates”, in Taiwan Today‎^[4], archived from the original on 2023-07-20, Top News:

     Secondly, he compared the same figures for six townships within 10 kilometers of the plant—Mailiao, Dongshih, Lunbei, Sihhu, Taixi and Baojhong—with those of five similarly urbanized areas located outside the 10-km radius, namely Huwei, Erlun, Yuanchang and Cihtong townships.

   • 2011 December 29, “Sihhu Coastal Botanical Garden”, in Taiwan Forestry Research Institute‎^[5], archived from the original on 2023-07-05, Botanical Gardens‎^[6]:

     Sihhu Coastal Botanical Garden, located in the small village of Lincuo near Sihhu in Yunlin County, was founded in 1993 and covers an area of 22 hectares. […]
     Sihhu Coastal Botanical Garden is dedicated to species preservation in the western coastal area of Sihhu.

   • 2017 October 30, “2017 Yunlin County Fall Season Beach Cleaning Activity”, in 云林縣環境保護局 [Environmental Protection Bureau, Yunlin County]‎^[7], archived from the original on 2023-07-04, Latest News‎^[8]:

     The Environmental Protection Bureau of Yunlin County and the Sihhu Township Office co-organized the “2017 Yulin County Fall Season Beach-cleaning Activity” at the Boziliao Harbor of Yunlin County’s Kouhu Township today (22). The Taipower Company also mobilized its employees in support of the event, attracting over 300 people to conduct cleanup activities along the coastline and its surrounding area.

   • 2018, “Monitoring and Analyzing Land Subsidence of Changhua and Yunlin Area in 2018 [107年度彰化及雲林地區地層下陷監測及分析]”, in 圖書典藏及影音數位平台圖書典藏及影音數位平台‎^[9], →ISBN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-04, 英文摘要:

     (2) Due to the subsidence rate which was more than 5 cm/yr in Sihhu Township in 2017, the new land subsidence monitoring well has been built up in Nangwang Elementary School on June 2018.

   • 2018 November 5, Natalie Tso, “Same surname! 149 Taiwan towns have a “majority surname””, in Radio Taiwan International‎^[10], archived from the original on 04 July 2023, News:

     Ministry of Interior data shows that Taiwan has 149 towns and villages where over half of the residents share the same last name. That’s out of 7,761 districts in Taiwan. In Yunlin’s Sihhu township, 65% of the people are surnamed Lin.

   • 2022 August 2, “Keeping cool”, in Taipei Times‎^[11], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-01, Taiwan News, page 3‎^[12]:

     Children play in a foam pool at Santiaolun Beach in Yunlin County’s Sihhu Township yesterday.

Translations

rural township

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 四湖 (sei³ wu⁴)

  Hokkien: 四湖

  Mandarin: 四湖 (zh) (Sìhú)