Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wanzhou

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.08 in modern English

Syllables: Wan-zhou
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A district of Chongqing, China.

Example Sentences

"After more than three hours in cramped vans and buses, we gave up on our hoped-for destination, a supposedly lovely town called Wanzhou, and debarked, at lunchtime, in Liangping, a gray, homely town we’d never heard of."
"A statement from Wanzhou district police said the 48-year-old female passenger asked the driver to pull over after she missed her stop, but he didn’t."
"In Wanzhou district, northeast of Chongqing, floods have caused 227.8 million yuan ($31.5 million) worth of economic losses, state broadcaster CCTV said."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 萬州 /万州 (Wànzhōu).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 萬州

Synonyms

Wanhsien Wanxian

Questions

What does wanzhou mean?: A district of Chongqing, China.
Where does wanzhou come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 萬州 /万州 (Wànzhōu).

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