Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

xiushan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: Xiu-shan
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A Tujia and Miao autonomous county in Chongqing, China.

Example Sentences

"Ge and others (1979, p. 169) named the Rongxi Formation for red beds lying above the Majiaochong Formation and below the Xiushan Formation. The type locality is about 6 km south of Rongxi, Xiushan County, SE Sichuan."
"An explosion hit an unlicensed fireworks factory early on Sunday morning in remote Xiushan county, in southwestern Chongqing, destroyed three nearby houses and left one person missing, the Beijing News said."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 秀山 (Xiùshān).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 秀山

Inflected Forms

Hsiushan (alternative)

Questions

What does xiushan mean?: A Tujia and Miao autonomous county in Chongqing, China.
Where does xiushan come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 秀山 (Xiùshān).

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