Husi

See also: husi, husí, húsi, hùsī, and Huși

English

Etymology

From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 湖西 (Húxī) Tongyong Pinyin: Húsi.

Proper noun

Husi

  1. Alternative form of Huxi
    • 1970, General Report of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, number 22-23, Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, ISSN 0447-8193, OCLC 1319792036, page 48, column 2:
      Twenty-four project farms in Paisha township and 23 check farms in Makung, Husi, and Paisha townships were investigated during August and September, 1970.
    • 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 77275260, page 176:
      Husi is the only township in Penghu where agriculture is more important than fishing.
    • 2007, Stephen Keeling, Brice Minnigh, The Rough Guide to Taiwan (Rough Guides), Penguin, →ISBN, OCLC 466340762, page 456:
      Husi
      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.
    • 2013, Wang, Ying-Chuan; 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:10.1089/vbz.2012.1059, ISSN 1530-3667, OCLC 971930651:
      Residents 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.
    • 2020 September 14, Hung, Ting-hung, “Number of sea turtle nests increasing across Taiwan”, in Taipei Times, ISSN 1563-9525, OCLC 464696902, archived from the original on 14 September 2020, Front Page, page 1:
      In 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.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Husi.
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