yuxi
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.13 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A prefecture-level city of Yunnan, China.
Example Sentences
- "This turn to tobacco is not surprising, since Eshan lies smack dab in the center of China’s prime tobacco road country; the Yuxi area has long had a name for good smokes. The Hongta Shan brand cigarette factory in Yuxi City is one of the largest enterprises in all of China, paying fully half of Yunnan’s taxes to the central tax bureau and accounting for 40 percent of the province’s own revenues."
- "For Shu Xiao, 27, a schoolteacher in Yuxi, a city in the southwestern province of Yunnan, group dinners can be discomfiting. Ms. Shu said her family has used serving chopsticks at home since last year, when reports were circulating about a local outbreak of stomach bacteria."
- "According to the Chinese state-run news agency, Xinhua, the herd on Wednesday was in Yuxi, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Kunming, a city of 7 million people."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 玉溪
Inflected Forms
Yuhsi (alternative)
Yü-hsi (alternative)
Synonyms
Yü-ch'i