hukou

plural hukous

1. ChinaTaiwanA household registration record that identifies a person as a local resident.

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   But now, a new awareness of the issue is raising questions about the status of women in China, as well as other rights issues like the hukou, or residency permit, a central tool of population control passed down from the Maoist era that restricts movement by linking people to the towns of their birth.

   2008 April 6, Howard W. French, “Single Mothers in China Forge a Difficult Path”, in New York Times

1. A rural township in Hsinchu County, Taiwan.

   Police tracked down a 32-year-old wanted man, surnamed Dang (鄧), to a dormitory in Hsinchu County's Hukou Township, reported TVBS.

   2023 July 17, Keoni Everington, “Migrant worker stabs cop, compatriot in north Taiwan”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2023, Society

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   Taxis arrive to pick up passengers cleared to leave the centralized quarantine facility in Hukou township in Hsinchu county in Northern Taiwan on Monday, Aug. 31, 2020.

   2020 September 8, Huizhong Wu, “VIRUS DIARY: One midnight moment in Taiwan’s virus battle”, in The Washington Post, sourced from Associated Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 May 2024

   According to the MNA, the Taipei-based 202nd Military Police Command's Quick Response Company will showcase its new Indian Challenger motorcycles at the Sept. 24 opening of the army base in Hukou Township, Hsinchu County.

   2023 September 6, Matt Yu, Joseph Yeh, “DEFENSE/Taiwan military to showcase new Indian Challenger motorcycles at base opening”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2023, Politics