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shangdu

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
Shang-du
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Synonym of Xanadu (“summer capital of Kublai Khan's empire”).

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 上都 (Shàngdū).

Word Breakdown

Synonyms

Xanadu

Questions

What does shangdu mean?
Synonym of Xanadu (“summer capital of Kublai Khan's empire”).
Where does shangdu come from?
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 上都 (Shàngdū).

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