xujiahui
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An area of Xuhui district, Shanghai, China, well-known for shopping and entertainment.
name
A subdistrict of Xuhui district, Shanghai, China, consisting of the central part of the larger neighborhood.
Example Sentences
- "The factory we went to see was out in the Hsuchiahui (Siccawei, in Shanghai dialect) district, and was called the Deaf and Mute Workers' Electrical Appliance Factory No. 2."
- "Early on the morning of the eighteenth the Taipings occupied the historic town of Hsu-chia-hui, or Siccawei, just west of the port, where Jesuit missionaries had long before established an important Catholic community."
- "The company joined with a local electronics chain, Jiangsu Five Star Appliance, to open the store in the busy Xujiahui shopping district of Shanghai."
Etymology
The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 徐家匯／徐家汇 (Xújiāhuì, literally “Xu Family Confluence”) in reference to the prominence of the Xu family in the area during the Ming dynasty and the previous junction of several streams and canals in the area.
Word Breakdown
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Inflected Forms
Hsu-chia-hui (alternative)