kwangchow

Questions about kwangchow

What does kwangchow mean?

kwangchow means "a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port".

How many syllables are in kwangchow?

kwangchow has 2 syllables and divides as kwang-chow 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 kwangchow?

Close synonyms include Guangzhou, Kuangchou, Canton. 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 kwangchow a common word?

kwangchow 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.