dadukou
/dɑ.duˈkoʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "A louse survey was made among students of primary schools and orphanages in the latter part of March, 1944, at Tatukou area outside Chungking. A total of 1,255 students were examined with 530 girls and 716 boys.[…] For the sake of convenience, and because of the seriousness of the malaria situation in the area, Tatukou on the outskirts of Chungking was chosen as the site for demonstration.[…] The survey was followed up by a study of the topography of Tatukou and disease-transmitting mosquitoes in the district."
- "In the 1930s and 1940s, people from the same province tended to stick together in Chongqing. We moved to Dadukou, about twenty miles from the city, where many people from the Jiangxi Province lived during the war."
- "Agile has bought a 119,287-square-metre parcel in Dadukou District at an auction to replenish its land bank in Chongqing, the company said in a filing to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange late Tuesday."
- "The unnamed burglar twisted his ankle while leaping from the third-floor balcony of a flat to a second-floor landing and then to the ground after a man living in the property in the Dadukou district of Chongqing came home while he was inside on Monday evening,[…]"
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 大渡口
Inflected Forms
Tatukow (alternative)
Ta-tu-k'ou (alternative)