Ockseu

Probably from a contraction of Chinese 烏坵嶼.[1]

Ockseu

1. Synonym of Wuqiu
   • 1879, Brassey, Anna, “The Inland Sea”, in A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam': Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months‎, Sixth edition, Toronto: Rose-Belford Publishing, →OCLC, page 369:

     At 1.35 we made the island of Ockseu, a capital landfall, and very satisfactory in every way ; for the sky was too much overcast to get an observation, and the currents hereabouts are strong and variable.

   • 1971, Beaver, Patrick, “The Light-keeper's World”, in A History of Lighthouses‎, Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, published 1973, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 129:

     The situation, however, is not unknown, for in Ockseu (China) lighthouse in December 1922, the principal keeper, a European, suddenly went insane and terrorized the whole establishment for several days before shooting dead his European assistant and himself. The two subordinate Chinese keepers kept the light going for twelve days before relief came.

   • 2021 March 15, Lailari, Guermantes, “The Lebensraum Factor in Xi Jinping’s Strategy for Hong Kong and Taiwan”, in Jewish Policy Center‎, archived from the original on 5 April 2021:

     In this type of scenario, the PLA could use overwhelming force or special forces to take over the closest islands groups such as the Matsu, Wuqiu/Ockseu, and Kinmen/Quemoy Islands (all within 30 miles of the PRC shores and would represent less than 1 percent of Taiwan’s total territory) in a short period of time (possibly a day to several days) and pause to review global reaction.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ockseu.