gansu

Other forms of gansu

plural

gansus·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gansu

What does gansu mean?

gansu means "a province in north-central China; formerly part of the Silk Road to Turkistan and India and Persia".

How many syllables are in gansu?

gansu has 2 syllables and divides as gan-su under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for gansu?

Close synonyms include Kansu, Gansu province. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gansu a common word?

gansu is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.