uotsuri
/ˌuːoʊˈtsʊəɹi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Ellipsis of Uotsuri Island: an island in Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, in the Senkaku Islands.
Example Sentences
- "The federation yesterday vowed to occupy Uotsuri, one of the islands, and build a permanent structure to house six members."
- "While diplomats sought quiet solutions, radicals built a lighthouse on Uotsuri, a small island in the disputed territory that is jointly claimed but solely patrolled by Japan.[…]A group of Japanese politicians including Shingo Nishimura, a Diet member then of the New Frontier Party (NFP) and now of the Liberal Party (LP), landed on Uotsuri and raised the Japanese flag.[…] In response, on May 26 a group from Hong Kong and Taiwan attempted to land on Uotsuri, but were stopped by Japanese coast guard vessels."
- "Japanese authorities questioned the seven Chinese activists after detaining them for their allegedly illegal visit to the isle of Uotsuri."
- "Japanese activists raised flags early Sunday on Uotsuri Island, part of the small archipelago known in Japan as Senkaku and in China as Diaoyu.[…] Even as the protests began unfolding Sunday morning, a group of conservative Japanese activists might have planted the seeds for further anger in China. About 10 of the activists, including local assembly members from Tokyo, swam ashore to the disputed island, Uotsuri. While Japan controls the island chain, the Tokyo government restricts access to avoid inflaming regional tensions. The 10 who landed Sunday did so without permission, and were later questioned by the Japanese Coast Guard."
- "The plan is to fly west, overfly the Senkaku Islands of Uotsuri and Kuba, and then return to Okinawa. The F-15s have their sensors off, with radar coverage provided by the E-2 radar plane orbiting west of Okinawa."
Etymology
From Japanese 魚釣(うおつり) (uotsuri).
Origin
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