Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

youyang

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: You-yang
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A Tujia and Miao autonomous county in Chongqing, China.

name

A town in Xianyou, Putian, Fujian, China.

Example Sentences

"The agency said the tree, which is 1,344 metres in diameter, is believed to be about 75 years old, according to the Chinese Academy of Forestry Science. It was found in Youyang county, Sichuan (Szechwan) province."
"Travelling recently in southern, rural Chongqing, I was struck by the sense that something in the atmosphere was different from elsewhere in the mainland. Youyang county is a Tu ethnic area, and even though the Tu look different from Han Chinese - they are darker, with longer noses and diamond-shaped eyes - it was not the physical difference."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 酉陽 /酉阳 (Yǒuyáng).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 酉陽, 游洋

Inflected Forms

Yuyang (alternative)

Questions

What does youyang mean?: A Tujia and Miao autonomous county in Chongqing, China.
Where does youyang come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 酉陽 /酉阳 (Yǒuyáng).

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