Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mentougou

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: Men-tou-gou
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A district of Beijing, China.

Example Sentences

"Between Saturday evening and Monday at 1 p.m., Beijing recorded an average of about 7 inches of rain. In the city’s Mentougou District, the average was over 12 inches, according to data from Beijing’s weather service, and Fangshan, another district on the capital’s outskirts, recorded even more."
"State television showed footage of the military airdropping food and ponchos to residents in the Mentougou district in western Beijing, which has been hit especially hard."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 門頭溝 /门头沟 (Méntóugōu).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 門頭溝

Inflected Forms

Men-t'ou-kou (alternative) Mentoukou (alternative)

Questions

What does mentougou mean?: A district of Beijing, China.
Where does mentougou come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 門頭溝 /门头沟 (Méntóugōu).

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