Lucao

Lu·cao
L1U1C3A1O1

proper noun

A rural township in Chiayi County, Taiwan.

Scrabble 7

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Lutsao

  1. A rural township in Chiayi County, Taiwan.

    The rats grow up on crops from fields surrounding the 18,000-population village of Lucao in Chiayi county -- which means they are not dirty rats from sewers, Lin said.

    2008 January 28, Ralph Jennings, “No ratatouille on Taiwan menu, but plenty of rat”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2023, Entertainment News
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    Chiayi Prison, which is currently being renovated, is slated to open in October as the nation’s first prison museum, where artifacts and documents will be on display offering visitors a taste of what prison life was like in the past. Its inmates were moved to a new prison in Chiayi’s Lucao Township (鹿草) in 1994, leaving the fate of the old building undecided.

    2011 February 27, Yu Hsueh-lan, Hsiang Cheng-chen, “Prison building to offer taste of life behind bars”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jul 2018, Taiwan News, page 2

    On Sunday (Sept. 1), local media outlets reported that a female student surnamed Huang (黃) lived in a tiny ramshackle hut only 7 ping (one ping equals 3.5 square meters) in size in Chiayi County's Lucao Township, and had no desk of her own, usually opting to study under a tree.

    2019 September 2, Keoni Everington, “Daughter of Vietnamese immigrant receives desk after testing into top Taiwan school”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2019, New Immigrants

Origin

  1. Mandarin鹿草
  2. EnglishLucao

Borrowed from Mandarin 鹿草 (Lùcǎo).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 鹿草
  • 鹿草 (luk⁶ cou²)rural township
Chinese Mandarin 鹿草
  • 鹿草 (Lùcǎo)rural township

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Cite this entry
APA

Lucao. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lucao

MLA

“Lucao.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lucao. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Lucao,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lucao.

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