Wuqi

See also: wúqī, Wúqī, wúqí, Wúqǐ, wǔqì, wùqī, wùqí, and wùqì

English

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 吳起／吴起 (Wúqǐ, literally “Wu Qi”).

Proper noun

Wuqi

1. A county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.
   • 2010 November 24, David Leonhardt, “In China, Cultivating the Urge to Splurge”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 May 2011, Magazine‎^[2]:

     Wuqi has been able to try a different economic model because it is neither too rich nor too poor. Located in Shaanxi Province, about a third of the way west from Beijing toward Tibet, it is too remote to be a factory boomtown. […]
     In Wuqi, Internet service works quite well, and personal computers have become common in the last few years. “All my colleagues shop online,” says Ma Jingye, 24, who works for the county government. She was using the Internet regularly while she was going to college in Beijing, and when she returned to Wuqi this summer, she was surprised to find it had caught on there, too.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吳起／吴起 (zh) (Wúqǐ)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 梧棲 (Wúqī).

Alternative forms

• Wuchi (Wade–Giles)
• Wuci (Tongyong Pinyin)

Proper noun

Wuqi

1. A district of Taichung, Taiwan.
   • 2022 August 4, Hsiung-feng Chang, Matthew Mazzetta, “Taiwan records historically hot, dry weather in July”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[3], archived from the original on 04 August 2022:

     Especially dry locations included Taichung's Wuqi District, which recorded only 0.5 mm of rainfall during July, and Chiayi weather station, which reported 58 mm, the bureau said.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 梧棲／梧栖 (Gô͘-chhe)

  Mandarin: 梧棲／梧栖 (zh) (Wúqī)

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Wusi or Wuhsi”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2109, column 1: “Jap. Gosei […] Sometimes spelled Wuchi.”