Meanings
husi1
- alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of jusi.
Husi2
- alternativeAlternative form of Huxi.
Husi is the only township in Penghu where agriculture is more important than fishing.
Taiwan Town and Country
2005, 台灣鄉鎮之美 [Taiwan Town and Country], 遠流出版事業股份有現公司, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1765 more examples
Twenty-four project farms in Paisha township and 23 check farms in Makung, Husi, and Paisha townships were investigated during August and September, 1970.
1970, General Report of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, numbers 22-23, Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 48, column 2Husi The central and eastern sections of Penghu Island comprise an area known as Husi, a broad swath of flat land filled with farmland, parks and the beautiful Aimen Beach, accessed via a short road that branches to the south from Highway 204.
2007, Stephen Keeling, Brice Minnigh, The Rough Guide to Taiwan (Rough Guides), Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 456Residents of Penghu, particularly Makung City and Husi Township, as well as travelers to the region during the spring and fall seasons should be educated about the signs and symptoms of scrub typhus.
2013, Ying-Chuan Wang et al., “Scrub Typhus Cases in a Teaching Hospital in Penghu, Taiwan, 2006–2010”, in Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, volume 13, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLCIn 2016, a hawksbill sea turtle laid eggs on a beach at Beiliao Village (北寮) in Penghu County’s Husi Township (湖西), but the eggs were unfertilized and did not hatch.
2020 September 14, Ting-hung Hung, “Number of sea turtle nests increasing across Taiwan”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Sep 2020, Front Page, page 1The largest turtle, in Husi Township’s (湖西) Longmen Guanyin Temple (龍門觀音宮), also carries a small turtle on its back and is trailed by three even smaller ones, symbolizing generational inheritance, temple director-general Yang Chao-wu (楊昭武) said.
2025 January 29, “Penghu temples show ‘rice turtles’ for Lantern Festival”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2025, Taiwan News, page 2
Origin
- Mandarin湖西
- EnglishHusi
From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 湖西 (Húxī) Tongyong Pinyin: Húsi.
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husi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/husi
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