Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

xiaogan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: Xiao-gan
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A prefecture-level city of Hubei, in central China.

Example Sentences

"When the planes do not come I am always consumed with curiosity as to where they do go. The urgent alarm means that they are within thirty miles of Hankow. I heard a rumour that they went to Siaokan north of Hankow on the railway. There is an air field there too."
"In early September, teachers at a high school in the city of Xiaogan, in Hubei Province, went on strike over what they called the government’s refusal to give them the proper status in the public employment system. The status helps determine details of their pension plans."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 孝感 (Xiàogǎn).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 孝感

Inflected Forms

Siaokan (alternative) Hsiao-kan (alternative) Hsiaokan (alternative)

Questions

What does xiaogan mean?: A prefecture-level city of Hubei, in central China.
Where does xiaogan come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 孝感 (Xiàogǎn).

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