Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hechuan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: He-chuan
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A district of Chongqing, China.

Example Sentences

""Hello, hello, hello! What? Hochuan? This is Peipei. Planes over Hochuan? Toward Peipei? No, not here. ... Bombing heard? Where, southward?" Then the man would hang up and turn the crank again, and shout to Chungking or some other place, "Peipei calling, planes over Hochuan, toward Peipei, Peipei." Very soon we would hear planes over our heads."
"On September 12, a man named Xiao Gang (pseudonym) was walking along BinjiangLu in Hechuan District, Chongqing when he was suddenly grabbed and forced into an abandoned home on the side of the road and sexually assaulted by Xiao Yong (pseudonym)."
"China Fortune Land Development Co Ltd : * Says it signs MoU with Chongqing Hechuan district government and Kunshan Bacheng government"

Etymology

From the Mandarin 合川 (Héchuān).

Word Breakdown

Root: 合川

Inflected Forms

Ho-ch'uan (alternative)

Questions

What does hechuan mean?: A district of Chongqing, China.
Where does hechuan come from?: From the Mandarin 合川 (Héchuān).

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