Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

zhapu

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: zha-pu
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A town in Pinghu, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China, on the northern shore of Hangzhou Bay and important under the Qing as a port and military garrison.

Example Sentences

"In that year the large Hangzhou garrison was subdivided when a Left Wing (zuo yi) brigade-general was created at Zhapu to oversee the naval garrison on the shores of Pinghu County. Zhapu was the port of Hangzhou."
"Scholarly consensus exists that, by the time of the Taiping rebellion, both were in bad shape, poorly equipped, with low morale - with the qualification made by Crossley in Orphan Warriors that the British were amazed at the fighting spirit which the Manchus displayed during the attack on the garrison of Zhapu near Shanghai in an episode of the First Opium War."
"A crane is transferring containers for import and export at Zhapu Port in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, China, July 13, 2021."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 乍浦 (Zhàpǔ).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 乍浦

Inflected Forms

Chapu (alternative) Cha-pu (alternative) Chapoo (alternative)

Questions

What does zhapu mean?: A town in Pinghu, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China, on the northern shore of Hangzhou Bay and important under the Qing as a port and military garrison.
Where does zhapu come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 乍浦 (Zhàpǔ).

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