Shanghainese is actually a kind of pidgin, based on Wu dialects, Lower Yangtze Mandarin, and English loanwords.
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Wu
//ˈwuː//
Synonyms for "wu" (45 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (14)
Related words (22)
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11 entriesRelated terms
6 entriesdbpedia capital
2 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
53 entriesShowing 16 of 53 words.
Translations
31 translations across 10 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- وُو name (one of the families of the Chinese language)
- وُو name (Chinese surname)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 㵲水 name (Translations)
- 伍 name (Chinese surname)
- 吳 /吴 name (Chinese surname)
- 吳方言 /吴方言 name (one of the families of the Chinese language)
Finnish
2 entries- Wu name (Chinese surname)
- wu-kiina name (one of the families of the Chinese language)
French
1 entries- wu name (one of the families of the Chinese language)
Japanese
3 entries- ウー name (Chinese surname)
- 吳 name (Chinese surname)
- 呉語 name (one of the families of the Chinese language)
Korean
3 entries- 오 name (Chinese surname)
- 우 name (Chinese surname)
- 우어 name (one of the families of the Chinese language)
Russian
2 entries- У name (Chinese surname)
- у name (one of the families of the Chinese language)
Thai
1 entries- ภาษาจีนอู๋ name (one of the families of the Chinese language)
Vietnamese
3 entries- Ngô name (Chinese surname)
- Wu name (Chinese surname)
- tiếng Ngô name (one of the families of the Chinese language)
Wu Chinese
4 entries- 伍 name (Chinese surname)
- 吳 /吴 name (Chinese surname)
- 吳方言 /吴方言 name (one of the families of the Chinese language)
- 吳語 /吴语 name (one of the families of the Chinese language)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
I can speak Standard Chinese (Putonghua), Southwestern Mandarin, Wu Chinese, and Spanish.
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Wu opened his shoe manufacturing business about 15 years ago and it had been doing well until now, he said.
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Emperor Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of Han, though remarkable in their achievements, somewhat lacked in literary grace; Emperor Taizong of Tang and Emperor Taizu of Song, though commendable in their elegance, still fall slightly short in their brilliance. The proud conqueror, Genghis Khan, knew only how to bend the bow and shoot great eagles. All of them are now bygone, and if you want to count the truly remarkable figures, look to the present age.
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