Meaning of Wu | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A Chinese shaman.
   historical
2. Initialism of Weather Underground.
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3. Suzhou, a city in southern Jiangsu province in China, whence:
   historical
4. A county of imperial and Republican China around Suzhou.
   historical
5. A surname from Chinese.
6. A river in Guizhou, China, a tributary of the Yangtze.
7. A river in Hunan, China, a tributary of the Yuan.
8. Initialism of Windows Update.
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9. A commandery of imperial China around Suzhou.
   historical
10. An epithet of numerous kings and emperors in Chinese history who were honored with variants of the posthumous name Wuwang or Wudi.
    historical
11. Various universities:
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12. Initialism of Washburn University.
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13. A historic and cultural region of China around the mouth of the Yangtze River, whence:
14. The family of Chinese languages spoken in that region, including Shanghainese and Suzhounese, the second-most spoken family after Mandarin.
15. Initialism of Washington University.
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16. The kingdom ruled by the Ji family from Wuxi and then Suzhou during the Spring and Autumn period of China's Zhou dynasty.
    historical
17. Initialism of Waynesburg University.
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18. A common surname from Chinese
19. Initialism of Webster University.
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20. The kingdom ruled by the Sun family from Ezhou and Nanjing during the Three Kingdoms interregnum following China's Han dynasty.
    historical
21. Initialism of Willamette University.
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22. The kingdom ruled by Li Zitong from Yangzhou and Hangzhou during the interregnum following China's Sui dynasty.
    historical
23. Initialism of Winthrop University.
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24. The kingdom ruled by the Yang family from Yangzhou during the Ten Kingdoms interregnum following China's Tang dynasty.
    historical
25. Initialism of World University.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
26. The kingdom ruled by the Qian family from Hangzhou and Shaoxing during the Ten Kingdoms interregnum following China's Tang dynasty.
    historical

Equivalents

Examples

“Linguists say the Wu dialect widely spoken in Shanghai, to take one prominent example, shares only about 31 percent lexical similarity with Mandarin, or roughly the same as English and French. The encounter at the Datian market began when the dumpling seller approached the foreigner with a phrase that sounded like "goodbye" in the Wu dialect. Knowing it must mean something else, the foreigner guessed she was asking his name, and provided it, producing a laugh from the woman who explained, switching to Mandarin, that she had asked if he had eaten lately.”

“The finest private gardens were built in Suzhou, a graceful old city with a network of canals and a cultured ambiance. It was founded in the sixth century B.C. as the capital of the kingdom of Wu and flourished as a center of trade and scholarship under successive dynasties.”

“I deeply regretted having to miss seeing Hsing-ping, a very old town built by the ruler of the Wu Kingdom in the Three Kingdoms period of the third century.”

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