Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

weibo

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.24 in modern English

Syllables: wei-bo
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A Chinese microblogging website.

Example Sentences

"“Eating meat means prosperity in the coming year,” the roastery wrote on Weibo on February 5, days before the Lunar New Year began."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 微博 (wēibó).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 微博

Questions

What does weibo mean?: A Chinese microblogging website.
Where does weibo come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 微博 (wēibó).

How to pronounce weibo

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