Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wanxian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: Wan-xian
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Synonym of Wanzhou (formerly called Wan County).

Example Sentences

"The Tiefengshan Anticline of Wanxian county, Sichuan Province, is a reversed anticline composed of Triassic and Jurassic rocks and has an axis oriented towards the NE."
"The bus collided around 10 am (0200 GMT) into a private car that was driving against the flow of traffic on a four-lane bridge in the city’s Wanxian area. The bus then veered, broke through the bridge fence and plunged into the Yangtze river."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 萬縣 /万县 (Wànxiàn).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 萬縣

Inflected Forms

Wanhsien (alternative)

Synonyms

Wanzhou

Questions

What does wanxian mean?: Synonym of Wanzhou (formerly called Wan County).
Where does wanxian come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 萬縣 /万县 (Wànxiàn).

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