"Liehyu" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 烈嶼 (Lièyǔ), Wade–Giles romanization: Lieh⁴-yü³.",
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          "ref": "1937 November 10 [1937 November 1], “JAPANESE WARSHIPS OFF AMOY”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume CCV, number 3666, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 211, column 1:",
          "text": "Japanese blue jackets, who occuipied the Liehyu Islet \"to the west. of the Quemoy Island on October 28, have been withdrawn, but those who landed on the Quemoy Island, numbering more than 1,000, and all belonging to Manchoukuo and Formosan armies, are still there.",
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          "ref": "1954 July, John C. Caldwell, “The Lost Christians of the China Coast”, in Christian Herald, volume 77, number 7, Christian Herald Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36, column 3:",
          "text": "Across the outer Amoy harbor from Kin Men is the island named Liehyu. Enemy batteries from Amoy can rake all sections of the island. In order to reach the most advance lookout posts, I had to crawl to avoid being seen by machine gunners across the waters. The Liehyu church is a lovely brick building with a white spire. But a direct hit by Communist artillery had removed the roof and gutted the interior. The Christians in Liehyu are few in number—between fifty and one hundred, the commanding general told me. They must worship in their homes now; they have no regular pastor.",
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          "ref": "1963, The Invincible Island: Ten Years of Reconstruction on Kinmen, Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, →OCLC, page 37:",
          "text": "With the outbreak of the gun duel on August 23, 1958, the students above the third grade of all primary schools on Liehyu, which lies too close to the mainland, were moved[…]",
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          "ref": "1976, Manabu Sasa, “Filariasis in the Asian Region”, in Human Filariasis: A Global Survey of Epidemiology and Control, University of Tokyo Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 459:",
          "text": "Based on these data, a five-year filariasis control project was organized in 1972 to cover the Kinmen Islands, and a detailed report was published by FAN et al. (1974a). In the present survey, a total of 20,018 persons in 55 villages of four townships were examined, and microfilariae were found in 1,764 (8.8%); clinical manifestations were found in 282 (19.2%) of 1,470 persons examined. The microfilarial rates according to the townships were 10.9% (1,038 positives out of 9,522 persons examined) in Kinnin, 7.5% (104 of 1 ,385) in Kincheng, 6.1 % (482 of 7,843) in Kinhu, and 11.0 % (140 of 1,268) in Liehyu.",
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          "ref": "1989 January 3, P. C. Fan, “Eradication of bancroftian filariasis by diethylcarbamazine-medicated common salt on Little Kinmen (Liehyu District), Kinmen (Quemoy) Islands, Republic of China”, in Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology, volume 84, number 1, published 1990, →DOI, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Since bancroftian filariasis constituted a major public health problem on Little Kinmen (Liehyu District), Kinmen (Quemoy) Islands, a control programme was conducted on this island from 1970 to 1982.",
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          "ref": "1989 June 21 [1989 June 19], “Premier Li Huan Visits Kinmen Island 18 Jun”, in Daily Report: China, numbers 81-118, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 81, column 2:",
          "text": "He first visited the Liehyu offshore islands by boat; met with soldiers and villagers there; heard a briefing by Hung Wan-chung, the village magistrate, on the administration of the village; visited the Field Battle History Museum and an observation post to watch the movement of communist troops on the opposite side of the Taiwan Strait; and heard reports on combat troop readiness.\nLi also inspected a psychological warfare unit at Huchingtou, Liehyu, where he saw off a balloon carrying materials showing the free bastion of Taiwan's warm support for the pro-democracy movement on the China mainland.",
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          "ref": "1998, Robert Storey, “Islands of the Taiwan Straits”, in Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 4th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 317, column 2:",
          "text": "Liehyu Island is another one of those 'Koxinga Slept Here' attractions. Koxinga's Well (guó xìng jǐng) is where the great warrior took a drink, and has since become a favourite pilgrimage spot for Taiwanese tour groups.",
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          "ref": "2001 February 8, Chi-ting Chuang, “Ex-Kinmen natives speak of loss”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-09-24, Local News, page 2:",
          "text": "Hung You-li (洪有利) from Xiamen is typical of those who have experienced such separation. Originally from Liehyu (烈嶼), an islet off Kinmen otherwise known as Little Kinmen, he left to visit his aunt and other relatives because his parents were dead and Liehyu was in a state of chaos after the KMT had taken over Kinmen in 1945. But he was not able to return for 52 years.\nHung Chuen-hui (洪春暉), a Liehyu resident, explained that the KMT troops at that time \"were of poor quality,\" and had disrupted the lives of local people.",
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          "ref": "2003 June, Tien-Hou (楊天厚) Yang, “金門城隍信仰研究 [The Research on the Faith in Cheng Hwang Yeh in Kinmen]”, in 國立中山大學中國文學研究所碩士論文 [National Sun Yat-sen University], →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-24, Abstract, page 7:",
          "text": "In 1392, Ming Dynasty built five military spots for coast safety. The five military spots were located in Tianpu village in Kinsha town, Fengshang village and Chengkun village in Kinhu town, and Liehyu Hsiang.",
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          "english": "Investigation of bat fauna in Kinmen",
          "ref": "2006 December, “金門地區蝙蝠相調查研究 [Investigation of bat fauna in Kinmen]”, in 內政部營建署金門國家公園管理處委託研究報告, page XIII:",
          "text": "In the first season, we searched possible bat roosting sites and sampling sites in Kinmen and Liehyu and interviewed local people to gather information of potential bat habitat.",
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          "ref": "2009 November 30, “President supports idea of building of Kin-Liehyu Bridge”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2022-09-20:",
          "text": "President Ma Ying-jeou assured residents of the outlying island county of Kinmen yesterday that a much-discussed bridge to connect Big Kinmen and the neighboring islet of Small Kinmen will indeed be built.\nThe proposal for the 4-km Kin-Liehyu Bridge - named after the smaller islet that is also known as Liehyu - has been discussed for more than 10 years, Ma noted.",
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          "english": "Technical Feasibility Assessment Report on Spent Nuclear Fuel Final Disposal",
          "ref": "2019, “我國用過核子燃料最終處置技術可行性評估報告 [Technical Feasibility Assessment Report on Spent Nuclear Fuel Final Disposal]”, in Taiwan Power Company, archived from the original on 2022-09-20, page 3-40:",
          "text": "烈嶼(Liehyu Island)地勢最高為麒麟山，由紅土化的片岩類基盤所形成的殘丘，其頂部覆蓋薄層泥岩與玄武岩熔岩流，標高114公尺(圖3-1左)。",
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          "text": "Japanese blue jackets, who occuipied the Liehyu Islet \"to the west. of the Quemoy Island on October 28, have been withdrawn, but those who landed on the Quemoy Island, numbering more than 1,000, and all belonging to Manchoukuo and Formosan armies, are still there.",
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          "text": "Across the outer Amoy harbor from Kin Men is the island named Liehyu. Enemy batteries from Amoy can rake all sections of the island. In order to reach the most advance lookout posts, I had to crawl to avoid being seen by machine gunners across the waters. The Liehyu church is a lovely brick building with a white spire. But a direct hit by Communist artillery had removed the roof and gutted the interior. The Christians in Liehyu are few in number—between fifty and one hundred, the commanding general told me. They must worship in their homes now; they have no regular pastor.",
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          "text": "With the outbreak of the gun duel on August 23, 1958, the students above the third grade of all primary schools on Liehyu, which lies too close to the mainland, were moved[…]",
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          "text": "Based on these data, a five-year filariasis control project was organized in 1972 to cover the Kinmen Islands, and a detailed report was published by FAN et al. (1974a). In the present survey, a total of 20,018 persons in 55 villages of four townships were examined, and microfilariae were found in 1,764 (8.8%); clinical manifestations were found in 282 (19.2%) of 1,470 persons examined. The microfilarial rates according to the townships were 10.9% (1,038 positives out of 9,522 persons examined) in Kinnin, 7.5% (104 of 1 ,385) in Kincheng, 6.1 % (482 of 7,843) in Kinhu, and 11.0 % (140 of 1,268) in Liehyu.",
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          "text": "Since bancroftian filariasis constituted a major public health problem on Little Kinmen (Liehyu District), Kinmen (Quemoy) Islands, a control programme was conducted on this island from 1970 to 1982.",
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          "text": "He first visited the Liehyu offshore islands by boat; met with soldiers and villagers there; heard a briefing by Hung Wan-chung, the village magistrate, on the administration of the village; visited the Field Battle History Museum and an observation post to watch the movement of communist troops on the opposite side of the Taiwan Strait; and heard reports on combat troop readiness.\nLi also inspected a psychological warfare unit at Huchingtou, Liehyu, where he saw off a balloon carrying materials showing the free bastion of Taiwan's warm support for the pro-democracy movement on the China mainland.",
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          "text": "Liehyu Island is another one of those 'Koxinga Slept Here' attractions. Koxinga's Well (guó xìng jǐng) is where the great warrior took a drink, and has since become a favourite pilgrimage spot for Taiwanese tour groups.",
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          "text": "Hung You-li (洪有利) from Xiamen is typical of those who have experienced such separation. Originally from Liehyu (烈嶼), an islet off Kinmen otherwise known as Little Kinmen, he left to visit his aunt and other relatives because his parents were dead and Liehyu was in a state of chaos after the KMT had taken over Kinmen in 1945. But he was not able to return for 52 years.\nHung Chuen-hui (洪春暉), a Liehyu resident, explained that the KMT troops at that time \"were of poor quality,\" and had disrupted the lives of local people.",
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          "text": "In 1392, Ming Dynasty built five military spots for coast safety. The five military spots were located in Tianpu village in Kinsha town, Fengshang village and Chengkun village in Kinhu town, and Liehyu Hsiang.",
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          "text": "In the first season, we searched possible bat roosting sites and sampling sites in Kinmen and Liehyu and interviewed local people to gather information of potential bat habitat.",
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          "ref": "2019, “我國用過核子燃料最終處置技術可行性評估報告 [Technical Feasibility Assessment Report on Spent Nuclear Fuel Final Disposal]”, in Taiwan Power Company, archived from the original on 2022-09-20, page 3-40:",
          "text": "烈嶼(Liehyu Island)地勢最高為麒麟山，由紅土化的片岩類基盤所形成的殘丘，其頂部覆蓋薄層泥岩與玄武岩熔岩流，標高114公尺(圖3-1左)。",
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