Wuku

See also: wuku

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 五股 (Wǔgǔ) Wade–Giles romanization: Wu³-ku³.

Proper noun

Wuku

1. Alternative form of Wugu
   • 1979 December 16, “Bird-watching helps to preserve environment”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly]‎^[3], volume XX, number 49, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 1:

     All kinds of birds in every environment from representative areas ranging from the extreme north to the south of the island will be included in the survey, which will be conducted in a systematic manner based on field deports.
     The Taipei group will concentrate on Yangmingshan, Tamsui and Wuku; the Taichung party will concentrate on the Hohuanshan area, covered in snow during the winter season; while Kaohsiung bird-watchers will travel to the Kenting National Park at the southern tip of the island.

   • 1996, 今日郵政‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28:

     With a view to enlarging service to the Wuku district, we moved into a newly built postal building on Dec. 15, 1996.

   • 2003, Christian Schafferer, “Case Study: The 1997 Local Elections”, in The Power of the Ballot Box: Political Development and Election Campaigning in Taiwan‎^[5], Lexington Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 150:

     Pai Hsiao-yen was kidnapped on 14 April 1997 on her way to school and was taken to an apartment in Wuku, Taipei County. […] At the end of April, Pai Hsiao-yen's body was found in a ditch in Wuku, Taipei County.

   • 2011 July 11, Benjamin Yeh, “FEATURE: Local textile firm wakes up and smells the coffee”, in Taipei Times‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 February 2012, Business, page 12:

     Vincent Wu, a manager at Singtex Industrial Co, smells a roll of fabric created partly from coffee grounds at the company’s headquarters in Wuku, an industrial park in New Taipei City.

   • 2017 March 19, “Kenyan runners dominate Taipei Expressway Marathon”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[7], archived from the original on 26 September 2022, Sports:

     Runners from Kenya swept the top spots in both the men's and women's full marathon events of the 2017 Taipei Expressway Marathon, which took place Sunday on the Wuku-Xizhi section of the Sun Yat-sen Freeway, also known as National Freeway No. 1.

   • 2021 July 1, Ian Sullivan, “337. “No Option is Excluded” — Using Wargaming to Envision a Chinese Assault on Taiwan”, in Mad Scientist Laboratory‎^[8], archived from the original on 01 July 2021:

     The PLA picked an unexpected target for their invasion, namely because it was not immediately near a port. They were quickly able to secure an airbase, but it took them until D+8 to secure and open a port—Wuku, to the east of Taipei.

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