Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gulang

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: Gu-lang
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A county of Wuwei, Gansu, in northwestern China.

Example Sentences

"Wu Dengfan, a 40-year-old farmer from Gulang county in Gansu who worked at a gold mine close to the Mongolian border from 1996 to 2006, had a similar experience. “We even preferred not to wear masks inside the mine, because it made breathing even more difficult,” said Wu, who has stage II pneumoconiosis. “When we finished our work and came out of the mine, each of us was completely covered in dust.”"

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 古浪 (Gǔlàng).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 古浪

Questions

What does gulang mean?: A county of Wuwei, Gansu, in northwestern China.
Where does gulang come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 古浪 (Gǔlàng).

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