Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

xinyu

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.63 in modern English

Syllables: Xin-yu
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A prefecture-level city of Jiangxi, China.

Example Sentences

"A fire in a commercial building in southeastern China killed at least 39 people on Wednesday, as emergency workers raced to rescue people still trapped inside. The fire broke out around 3:30 p.m. local time in Xinyu, a city in Jiangxi Province, in the basement of a building that housed an internet cafe on the ground floor and an educational center upstairs, according to Chinese state media and a local government announcement."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新余 (Xīnyú).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 新余

Questions

What does xinyu mean?: A prefecture-level city of Jiangxi, China.
Where does xinyu come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新余 (Xīnyú).

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