wu
/ˌdʌb.əl.juˈju/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.81 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Linguists say the Wu dialect widely spoken in Shanghai, to take one prominent example, shares only about 31 percent lexical similarity with Mandarin, or roughly the same as English and French. The encounter at the Datian market began when the dumpling seller approached the foreigner with a phrase that sounded like "goodbye" in the Wu dialect. Knowing it must mean something else, the foreigner guessed she was asking his name, and provided it, producing a laugh from the woman who explained, switching to Mandarin, that she had asked if he had eaten lately."
- "The finest private gardens were built in Suzhou, a graceful old city with a network of canals and a cultured ambiance. It was founded in the sixth century B.C. as the capital of the kingdom of Wu and flourished as a center of trade and scholarship under successive dynasties."
- "I deeply regretted having to miss seeing Hsing-ping, a very old town built by the ruler of the Wu Kingdom in the Three Kingdoms period of the third century."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, ^吳, ^武, ^烏, ^巫, ^㵲
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌdʌb.əl.juˈju/
- British English: /ˌdʌb.əl.juːˈjuː/