"Penghu" meaning in English

See Penghu in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Rhymes: -uː Etymology: From the Wade-Giles romanization of Mandarin 澎湖 (Pénghú), Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻêng²-hu². Etymology templates: {{uder|en|cmn|澎湖|tr=Pénghú}} Mandarin 澎湖 (Pénghú), {{bor|en|cmn-wadegiles|-}} Wade–Giles Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Penghu
  1. An insular county of Taiwan. Categories (place): Places in Taiwan, Counties of Taiwan
    Sense id: en-Penghu-en-name-wgYTgyuV Disambiguation of Counties of Taiwan: 42 33 25
  2. Short for Penghu Island, the largest of the Pescadores, an archipelago in the Taiwan Strait, part of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: Penghu Island (extra: the largest of the Pescadores, an archipelago in the Taiwan Strait, part of the Republic of China (Taiwan)) Translations (island group in the Taiwan Strait): 澎湖 (Phêⁿ-ô͘) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 澎湖 (paang⁴ wu⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 澎湖 (Pénghú) (Chinese Mandarin), 澎湖 (Hōko) (alt: ほうこ) (Japanese)
    Sense id: en-Penghu-en-name-Q4M5pMR9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Cantonese translations, Terms with Hokkien translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 47 49 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 4 48 48 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 2 44 54 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 4 47 49 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 46 51 Disambiguation of Terms with Cantonese translations: 7 43 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Hokkien translations: 9 46 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 2 45 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 9 49 42 Disambiguation of 'island group in the Taiwan Strait': 9 85 7
  3. Short for Penghu Islands, the Pescadores collectively. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: Penghu Islands (extra: the Pescadores collectively)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Pescadores, P'eng-hu, Pênghu [also]

Alternative forms

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          "Republic of China",
          "Republic of China"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "the Pescadores collectively",
          "word": "Penghu Islands"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1947, Hollington K. Tong, editor, China Handbook, page 33:",
          "text": "FORMOSA\nDuring the Cairo Conference in November, 1943, it was agreed among President Chiang Kai-Shek, President Roosevelt, and Prime Minister Churchill that China should recover all the territories she had lost to Japan, including Fomosa (Taiwan) and the Pescadores (Penghu) Islands ceded to the invaders after the first Sino-Japanese War in 1894-95.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1966 December, “Taiwan”, in Alice Taylor, editor, Focus, volume 17, number 4, American Geographical Society, page 4:",
          "text": "In the Penghu Islands, the fourth agricultural region, scanty rainfall, poor soils, and strong winds, limit agricultural production to sweet potatoes and peanuts.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Phil Macdonald, National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 32:",
          "text": "Koxinga's son Jheng Jing succeeded his father and ruled for the next 20 years until his death, when his son, only 12 years old, was placed on the throne. A year later, in 1684, the Jheng navy was all but wiped out near the Penghu Islands.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 July 1, Austin Ramzy, “Taiwan Navy Accidentally Fires Antiship Missile, Killing Fisherman”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-07-01, Sinosphere:",
          "text": "The supersonic missile flew for about two minutes toward the Penghu Islands, in the direction of China, but did not cross the midway line in the Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and China, said the official, Vice Adm. Mei Chia-shu.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 August 15, Ryan Woo, Ben Blanchard, “Angry China stages more drills near Taiwan as U.S. lawmakers visit”, in Himani Sarkar, Robert Birsel, Raissa Kasolowsky, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-08-15, Asia Pacific:",
          "text": "The theatre command said the exercises took place near Taiwan's Penghu islands, which are in the Taiwan Strait and are home to a major air base, and showed close up video of the islands taken by a Chinese air force aircraft.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 September 1, George Liao, “High-speed ferry services between Taiwan’s Tainan and Penghu resume operation”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2022-09-02:",
          "text": "Penghu, an archipelago made up of 97 islands, is located in the middle of the Taiwan Strait.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Short for Penghu Islands, the Pescadores collectively."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Islands",
          "islands"
        ],
        [
          "Pescadores",
          "Pescadores"
        ],
        [
          "collectively",
          "collectively"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-uː"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Pescadores"
    },
    {
      "word": "P'eng-hu"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "from Wade–Giles"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "also"
      ],
      "word": "Pênghu"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "paang⁴ wu⁴",
      "sense": "island group in the Taiwan Strait",
      "word": "澎湖"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "Phêⁿ-ô͘",
      "sense": "island group in the Taiwan Strait",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "澎湖"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Pénghú",
      "sense": "island group in the Taiwan Strait",
      "word": "澎湖"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ほうこ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "Hōko",
      "sense": "island group in the Taiwan Strait",
      "word": "澎湖"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Penghu"
  ],
  "word": "Penghu"
}

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