Uotsuri
English
Etymology
From Japanese 魚釣.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌuːoʊˈtsʊəɹi/
Proper noun
Uotsuri
- An island in Ishigaki, Okinawa prefecture, Japan, in the Senkaku Islands
- 1940 February 6, “13 Rescued from Wrecked Plane”, in Victoria Daily Times, volume 96, number 31, Victoria, B.C., ISSN 0839-430X, OCLC 911754661, page 14, column 1:
- A rescue ship headed toward Formosa today with the 13 persons who lived through the wrecking of a Japanese airways land plane in a forced landing on Uotsuri Island.
The stranded crew of four and nine passengers were sighted by the ship along the beach, 110 miles north of Formosa.
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Synonyms
- (from Mandarin Chinese) Diaoyutai
Translations
island
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