Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

siccawei

/sɪːkəˈweɪ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sic-cawei
IPA: /sɪːkəˈweɪ/

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Synonym of Xujiahui, an area of Xuhui District, Shanghai, China.

Obsolete

name

Synonym of Xuhui, the larger district of Shanghai, China, surrounding Xujiahui.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"The factory we went to see was out in the Hsuchiahui (Siccawei, in Shanghai dialect) district, and was called the Deaf and Mute Workers' Electrical Appliance Factory No. 2."
"Early on the morning of the eighteenth the Taipings occupied the historic town of Hsu-chia-hui, or Siccawei, just west of the port, where Jesuit missionaries had long before established an important Catholic community."

Etymology

A romanization of the Shanghainese pronunciation of Chinese 徐家匯 /徐家汇 (xxi-ka-hhue).

Origin

Source language: Chinese

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 徐家匯

Usage

Obsolete

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Places.

Synonyms

Xujiahui Xuhui

Questions

How do you pronounce siccawei?: The recorded pronunciation is /sɪːkəˈweɪ/.
What does siccawei mean?: Synonym of Xujiahui, an area of Xuhui District, Shanghai, China.
Where does siccawei come from?: It is traced to Chinese.

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