wuxi
/wuːˈʃiː/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.28 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A prefecture-level city of Jiangsu, in eastern China.
Example Sentences
- "Like most of the women in her village, Ren Riqing looks after children: “This is my nephew. His parents work far away in a factory in Wuxi. It’s not as strenuous as working here in the fields. I have a son and a daughter -- they’re also in Wuxi. If things go well, they come back once in two years. Travel costs money. It makes me sad, but what can I do?”"
- "MedImmune, the Gaithersburg research arm of pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, is making aggressive moves to expand its footprint in China. The company said Wednesday it plans to spend $50 million on another production facility in Wuxi, a city near Shanghai on China’s east coast."
- "The landslide on Tuesday demolished a five-story apartment building and two private hotels in Wuxi County in Sichuan Province."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 無錫, 巫溪
Inflected Forms
Wusih (alternative)
Wu-hsi (alternative)
Wuhsi (alternative)
Wuki (alternative)
Wu-ch'i (alternative)