Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

eng choon

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.21 in modern English

Syllables: en-g -choon
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Synonym of Yongchun.

Example Sentences

"Different clans formed their own associations; for example the Hokkiens from the County of Eng Choon of Fujian Province formed the Eng Choon Association as far back as 1800."
"Lee was born in 1939 in Jeram, Kuala Selangor, north-east of Kuala Lumpur and his ancestral roots are from Eng Choon district of Fujian Province in China."
"Father was from the third generation of the Gunn family whose patriarch hailed from Eng Choon county in the Chinese province of Fujian. (In Mandarin, this county is known as Yongchun.) Many of the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia had come from Eng Choon."

Etymology

From Hokkien 永春 (Éng-chhun).

Word Breakdown

Root: 永春

Synonyms

Yongchun

Questions

What does eng choon mean?: Synonym of Yongchun.
Where does eng choon come from?: From Hokkien 永春 (Éng-chhun).

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