wusu
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A city in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Example Sentences
- "Pending the completion of the Sinkiang railroad, the region is served by a number of major land routes that have been transportation links since ancient times. They are the North Road (north of the Tien Shan) passing from Kansu through Urumchi and Wusu, where it bifurcates into two routes going to the Soviet Union."
- "Revolutionary committees at all levels in Wusu County have promoted the ideological revolutionization of the leading bodies by grasping the creative study and application of Mao Tsetung thought by leading members and arming their minds with Chairman Mao's theory of continuing the revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat."
- "And on Sunday, a Public Security Bureau chief in northwest China was relieved of duty for “allegedly keeping a pair of twin sisters as mistresses,” according to Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency. Qi Fang, the police chief in Wusu, has been accused of renting “a high-end apartment unit for the sisters in downtown Wusu” and charging the rent as an official expense."
- "The site of the Grand Mosque in Wusu, Xinjiang, in 2017 and 2019."
Etymology
From Mandarin 烏蘇 /乌苏 (Wūsū).
Word Breakdown
- Root: 烏蘇
Inflected Forms
Wu-su (alternative)