ryukyuan

Questions about ryukyuan

What does ryukyuan mean?

ryukyuan means "a member of the Japanese people living on the Ryukyu Islands southwest of Japan". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ryukyuan?

ryukyuan has 3 syllables and divides as ryu-ky-uan 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.

Is ryukyuan a common word?

ryukyuan is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ryukyuan come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.