Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wugong

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: Wu-gong
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.

Example Sentences

"The heart of the centre is in Yangling town in Wukung County, 80 kilometres from Sian, the provincial capital."
"According to a report last week by Huashang Daily, several schools in rural Shaanxi province are struggling to keep their pupils warm after their coal-fired heaters were dismantled during the anti-smog campaign. A primary school in Wugong county had neither a gas supply nor an electricity connection powerful enough to run the heaters on its air conditioning units, it said."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 武功 (Wǔgōng).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 武功

Inflected Forms

Wu-kung (alternative)

Questions

What does wugong mean?: A county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
Where does wugong come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 武功 (Wǔgōng).

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