Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

zhoukoudian

/ˈdʒouˈɡouˈdjɑːn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: Zhou-kou-dian
IPA: /ˈdʒouˈɡouˈdjɑːn/

28

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An area of Fangshan district, Beijing, China.

Example Sentences

"In the more remote past, 450 million years ago, the Choukoutien area was part of a sea as the presence there of Ordovician limestone proves."
"A Swedish geologist turned archaeologist, Johan Gunnar Andersson, for example led the project that led to the discovery of the “Peking Man” fossils, in the 1920s, at the site of Zhoukoudian, dating to circa 200,000 to 700,000 years ago, and also helped establish evidence of “prehistoric” culture, in the form of early painted ceramics at the Neolithic site of Yangshao, dating to circa 5,000 to 3,000 B.C."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 周口店 (Zhōukǒudiàn).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 周口店

Inflected Forms

Choukoutien (alternative) Chou-k'ou-tien (alternative)

Questions

How do you pronounce zhoukoudian?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈdʒouˈɡouˈdjɑːn/.
What does zhoukoudian mean?: An area of Fangshan district, Beijing, China.
Where does zhoukoudian come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 周口店 (Zhōukǒudiàn).

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