Lucao
See also: lúcǎo
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Mandarin 鹿草 (Lùcǎo).
Proper noun
[edit]Lucao
- A rural township in Chiayi County, Taiwan.
- 2008 January 28, Ralph Jennings, “No ratatouille on Taiwan menu, but plenty of rat”, in Reuters[1], archived from the original on 11 September 2023, Entertainment News[2]:
- 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.
- 2011 February 27, Yu Hsueh-lan, Hsiang Cheng-chen, “Prison building to offer taste of life behind bars”, in Taipei Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on July 03, 2018, Taiwan News, page 2[4]:
- 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.
- 2019 September 2, Keoni Everington, “Daughter of Vietnamese immigrant receives desk after testing into top Taiwan school”, in Taiwan News[5], archived from the original on September 03, 2019, New Immigrants[6]:
- 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.