Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lingao

/ˈlɪnˈɡaʊ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: Lin-gao
IPA: /ˈlɪnˈɡaʊ/

7

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A county of Hainan, China.

Example Sentences

"Linkao County has reaped a great bumper harvest of early-rice with total production 30 percent more than last year. The county has set a fine example for Hainan in developing grain production. Its experiences show that "it is completely possible for agriculture in Hainan to take a great leap forward.""
"Subsequently, "all Hainan Island was swept by a wave of discrimination, attack, insult and threat against outside cadres [with the result that] everybody was plunged into a state of panic." This came to a climax in December 1956 with a "miniature Hungarian incident" in Linkao county."
"Wang Haibian was among the first few people in Maniao, a fishing community in Lingao County of Hainan Province, south China, to get hooked on drugs in the mid-1990s."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 臨高／临高 (Língāo).

Word Breakdown

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Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈlɪnˈɡaʊ/

Questions

How do you pronounce lingao?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈlɪnˈɡaʊ/.
What does lingao mean?: A county of Hainan, China.
Where does lingao come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 臨高／临高 (Língāo).

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