Meaning

4 senses
  1. Their language, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family.

  2. A river in Zhejiang, China.

  3. A river in Fujian, China.

  4. A surname from Chinese.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. I want to live in Curaçao.

    Я хочу жити в Кюрасао.

    ruХочу жить в Кюрасао.

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  2. Curaçao just lost to Germany by a lot.

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  3. Willemstad is the capital of Curaçao.

    ruВиллемстад - столица Кюрасао.

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  4. The capital of Curaçao is Willemstad.

    ruСтолица Кюрасао - Виллемстад.

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  5. I read the research paper "Merging the orthographies of Papiamento and Papiamentu, from a Curaçao perspective."

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Origin

From atonal romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 鰲 /鳌 (Áo) and 敖 (Áo).

From atonal romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 鰲 /鳌 (Áo) and 敖 (Áo).

Borrowed from Cantonese 歐 /欧 (au¹) or Cantonese 區 /区 (au1). Doublet of Au.

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Synonyms

3 synonyms
AojiangAokiangAo-chiang

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
Ao — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto