Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

beidou

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.75 in modern English

Syllables: Bei-dou
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An urban township in Changhua County, Taiwan.

name

Alternative form of BeiDou (“a Chinese satellite navigation system”).

name

A Chinese satellite navigation system.

Example Sentences

"At 2am on April 22 last year, I departed Chengan Temple (奠安宮) in Changhua County’s Beidou Township (北斗) surrounded by thousands of Matsu devotees."
"At 6:45 a.m. on Tuesday (April 25), a fire broke out at the Lian Hwa Foods Corp. factory on Sihai Road, Section 1 in Changhua County's Beidou Township."

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 北斗 (Běidǒu).

Word Breakdown

Root: 北斗

Inflected Forms

Peitou (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

Galileo GLONASS GPS

Questions

What does beidou mean?: An urban township in Changhua County, Taiwan.
Where does beidou come from?: Borrowed from Mandarin 北斗 (Běidǒu).

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