fuxi
/fuʃiː/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A legendary ancient Chinese ruler and culture hero, typically the brother of Nüwa.
Example Sentences
- "The Chineſe ſay that Fo-hi, the Founder of their Monarchy, fix’d his Court in this Province; and began his Reign about the Year 2952, according to ſome Authors, whoſe Opinion if true confirms the Chronology of the Septuagint."
- "Tianshui, the birthplace of Fuxi, and a hub for Fuxi culture, has a long standing tradition of worshiping Fuxi. In 1988, the Tianshui Municipal Government officially initiated the public ceremony for Fuxi worship with its scale and influence continuously growing."
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the modern Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 伏羲 (Fúxī), variously understood and treated as a solar god, protoplast, culture hero, legendary emperor, and protohistorical tribal chief or as an imperial or prehistoric dynasty (氏, shì) in China before the Xia. The two characters may be phonetic but have the meaning "concealed from", "submitting to", or "prostrate before" 羲 (xī), a character that also appears in the name of the early solar goddess 羲和 (“Xīhé”), q.v.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 伏羲
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /fuʃiː/
Inflected Forms
Fu Xi (alternative)
Fu Hsi (alternative, dated)
Fu-hsi (alternative, dated)
Fo Hi (alternative, obsolete)
Fo-hi (alternative, obsolete)
Fo-Hsi (alternative, obsolete)
Fou Hi (alternative, obsolete)
Fou-hi (alternative, obsolete)
Fohy (alternative, obsolete)