Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wenxi

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: Wen-xi
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.

Example Sentences

"I arrived at the P’ei village in Wen-hsi county. I paid my respects at the shrine to the Duke of Chin (i.e. P’ei Tu, 764-839) and inquired after his descendants. There were still one or two hundred men who left their plowing to come and pay their respects together."
"Li Haicang was the richest and most powerful man around. His company, Haixin Steel, accounts for two-thirds of the economic activity in Wenxi, a county of 340,000 people. Mr. Li paid wages, bought land, built roads and schools and, when people were unhappy, took blame.[…] Wenxi County and the nearby city of Yuncheng have dispatched experts to figure out how to run Haixin, which was closely held by Mr. Li, his family and his business partners."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 聞喜 /闻喜 (Wénxǐ).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 聞喜

Inflected Forms

Wenhsi (alternative)

Questions

What does wenxi mean?: A county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.
Where does wenxi come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 聞喜 /闻喜 (Wénxǐ).

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