Meanings
alternative Touliu · alternative Douliou
- A city, the county seat of Yunlin County, Taiwan.
A restaurant in Douliu City, Yunlin County debuted its "Godzilla" ramen featuring crocodile meat as its main ingredient.
2023 June 26, Lyla Liu, “Taiwan restaurant launches 'Godzilla' crocodile ramen”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2023, Travel & Cuisine3 more examples
On March 5, all the government and military institutions in Gaoxiong were occupied, and over 700 Kuomintang troops were held captive. The people’s forces from Taizhong, Douliu, Dounan, and Zhushan converged on Huwei, and regrouped into a combined force to capture Huwei airport. All the Chiang troops there surrendered.
1979 April, “The Turning Point in the Civil War”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVIII, number 4, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 41, column 2In Chapter 2, I briefly mentioned a woman I interviewed who paid her Daoist master NT$20,000 for a three-day ceremony. She attended all three days of this ceremony at an apartment temple in the city of Douliu, about 70 kilometers south of Taizhong.
1999, Marc L. Moskowitz, Fetus-Spirits: New Ghosts in Modern Taiwan, →OCLC, page 98Supporters of Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson and presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen wave flags during a campaign rally in Douliu, Taiwan, January 11, 2016.
2016 January 12, “In Taiwan's south, calls for independence from China entrenched as poll looms”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 08 Oct 2022, 8 / 16Synonyms: Tau-lak
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA city, the county seat of Yunlin County, Taiwan.
Origin
- Mandarin斗六
- EnglishDouliu
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 斗六 (Dǒuliù).
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Chinese Cantonese 斗六
- 斗六 (dau² luk⁶)city
Chinese Mandarin 斗六
- 斗六 (Dǒuliù)city
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Douliu. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Douliu
“Douliu.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Douliu. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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