Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

daxi

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: daxi
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A district of Taoyuan, Taiwan.

Example Sentences

"At Cihu, near the town of Daxi, 30 miles (50 km) southwest of Taipei on Provincial Highway 7, Chiang Kai-shek lies entombed above ground in a granite and marble coffin in one of his former country villas. The gravesite is "temporary," as before his death Chiang had requested his body be returned to his native province of Zhejiang in mainland China."
"Now, busloads of Chinese tourists come every week to visit Chiang’s tomb, nestled between two red and blue Taiwanese flags in the small town of Daxi, an hour’s drive south of Taipei."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大溪 (Dàxī).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 大溪

Inflected Forms

Tahsi (alternative) Ta-hsi (alternative) Dasi (alternative)

Questions

What does daxi mean?: A district of Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Where does daxi come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大溪 (Dàxī).

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