Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wujiang

/wud͡ʒjɑŋ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: Wu-jiang
IPA: /wud͡ʒjɑŋ/

18

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A district of Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.

name

Synonym of Wu River, various rivers in China, particularly a major tributary of the Yangtze rising in Guizhou.

Example Sentences

""Without China, I'd be bankrupt," said Feng Wen-bing, a Taiwanese who co-owns a $10 million electronics firm in Wujiang, near Shanghai. Thirty factories are currently being built there and 30 more are expected to start being constructed soon. Most are Taiwan-owned."
"He was born in Wujiang County, Jiangsu Province, in eastern China and began his higher education at Yenching University in Beijing, planning to study medicine. But deciding that China's problems were social and political rather than medical, he turned to sociology."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 吳江 /吴江 (Wújiāng, “Wu River”), after the once major Wusong River nearby.

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 吳江, 烏江

Inflected Forms

Wukiang (alternative) Wu-chiang (alternative) Wuchiang (alternative)

Synonyms

Wu River various rivers in China particularly a major tributary of the Yangtze rising in Guizhou

Questions

How do you pronounce wujiang?: The recorded pronunciation is /wud͡ʒjɑŋ/.
What does wujiang mean?: A district of Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
Where does wujiang come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 吳江 /吴江 (Wújiāng, “Wu River”), after the once major Wusong River nearby.

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