Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hsu

/ʃˈu/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.97 in modern English

Syllables: hsu
IPA: /ʃˈu/

6

Scrabble Score

3

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Example Sentences

"In 1953, station director Cheng Tsung-yuan used timber from trees blown down in high winds to construct a hexagonal hall that would represent Liouguei. It was named Tsu Ching Hall, after Hsu Ching-chong, first agriculture director of the Taiwanese provincial government."
"Historian Hsu Cho-yun (許倬雲), a correspondence research fellow at Academia Sinica's Institute of History and Philology, has died in the United States at 94, Taiwan's top research institution confirmed in a statement Monday. Hsu's death Sunday (U.S. time) was also confirmed by the Tang Prize Foundation in Taipei, which in 2024 honored the historian as a laureate in Sinology."

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 許／许 (Xǔ) or 徐 (Xú) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsü.

Word Breakdown

Root: -

Inflected Forms

Hsus (plural) Hsü (alternative, also) Sheu (alternative) Syu (alternative) Xu (alternative, Hanyu Pinyin)

Frequently Paired Words

Shu Xu

Homonyms

shue shiu

Rhymes With

to you do who to-do new two too through few true due

Questions

How do you pronounce hsu?: The recorded pronunciation is /ʃˈu/.
What does hsu mean?: A surname.
Where does hsu come from?: Borrowed from Mandarin 許／许 (Xǔ) or 徐 (Xú) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsü.

How to pronounce hsu

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