Wuku

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A form of Wugu — A district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Wugu.

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

    1996, 今日郵政, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28
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    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.

    Free China Weekly

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

    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.

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

    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.

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

    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.

    2017 March 19, “Kenyan runners dominate Taipei Expressway Marathon”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2022, Sports

    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.

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

Origin

  1. Mandarin五股
  2. EnglishWuku

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

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APA

Wuku. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Wuku

MLA

“Wuku.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Wuku. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Wuku,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Wuku.

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