Liouguei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Liu-kuei
form: Liukuei
form: Liugui
Etymology: From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 六龜 (Liòuguei).
Senses: examples: text: Meinong's small bus station is in the centre of town at the junction of Jhongshan and Jhongjheng roads, with buses to Kaohsiung (daily 5.35am-8.45pm every 30min; NT$131) and seven daily services to Liouguei in the Maolin National Scenic Area.
ref: 2007, Stephen Keeling, Brice Minnigh, The Rough Guide to Taiwan (Rough Guides), Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 356:
text: The study area is mainly located in the Liouguei District and Taoyuan District in Kaohsiung City.
ref: 2013, Jing-Wen Chen, Yung-Sheng Chue, Yie-Ruey Chen, “The application of the genetic adaptive neural network in landslide disaster assessment”, in Journal of Marine Science and Technology, 4th edition, volume 21, page 444:
text: Before the Japanese colonial era, the most prosperous area around the three settlements was the Liouguei area on the west coast of the Laonong River. Liouguei became the main center for the exchange of goods between the Lower Three Settlements.
ref: 2014, Marinos Ioannides, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Eleanor Fink, editors, Digital Heritage: Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection 5th International Conference, EuroMed 2014, Limassol, Cyprus, November 3-8, 2014, Proceedings, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 652:
text: At the Liouguei Reconstruction centre, the guiding philosophy was helping people regain quality of life in ways that reconciled reconstruction activities with the maintenance of social and cultural traditions, both community and school-based.
ref: 2016, Helen James, Douglas Paton, editors, The Consequences of Disasters: Demographic, Planning, and Policy Implications, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 69:
text: Over the past 24 hours, mountainous areas of Kaohsiung, including the city's Taoyuan and Namasia Districts, have received over 400 millimeters of rain, while the accumulated rainfall in Liouguei, Maolin and Jiasian Districts exceeded 300mm.
ref: 2019, Su Mu-chun, Wu Che-hao, Yeh Tze-kung, Chen Chi-fong, Emerson Lim, Chung Yu-chen, “Over 3,000 people evacuated in Kaohsiung due to torrential rain”, in Focus Taiwan:
text: After Namasia, Jiasian, Taoyuan, Maolin and Liouguei were devastated in the 2009 Typhoon Morakot, Kaohsiung City Government and Tzu Chi Foundation worked together to create Shanlin Da-ai Village, so survivors could have new and safer homes.
ref: 2019, Chen Ting-fang, “Da-ai Sewing Workshop”, in Hou Ya-ting, transl., Love Kaohsiung 愛·高雄, number 4, page 5:
text: Over the past few years, I’ve grown to really appreciate Liouguei District (六龜). It’s one of the most scenic and thinly populated parts of Kaohsiung.
The number of humans living here has steadily declined since the 1980s. With barely 12,500 adults and children spread over 194 square kilometers, Liouguei’s residents enjoy more space per person than folks in Hualien County.
Liouguei is dominated by the Laonong River (荖濃溪), a major tributary of the Kaoping River (高屏溪). Within the district, there are four river crossings. Three are part of the provincial highway network; the fourth belongs to Kaohsiung Local Road 131.
ref: 2020, Steven Crook, “Highways and Byways: Liouguei’s Buddhas and butterflies”, in Taipei Times:
text: After graduation, he headed to the remote Liouguei Township in Kaohsiung, whose Baptist Church also served the Indigenous majority Namasia, Taoyuan and Maolin townships.
ref: 2025 May 18, Han Cheung, “Taiwan in Time: Housing Taiwan’s orphans”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 May 2025, Features, page 12:
glosses: A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.