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WU

Pronunciation (US):

• WU (noun)
The noun WU has 1 sense:

1. a dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta

Familiarity information: WU used as a noun is very rare.

• WU (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Shanghai dialect; Wu; Wu dialect

Hypernyms ("Wu" is a kind of...):

Chinese (any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system)

"Don't spoil the ship for a halfpenny of tar."
(English proverb)
"Don't sell eggs in the bottom of hens"
(Breton proverb)
"A person who does not speak out against the wrong is a mute devil."
(Arabic proverb)
"A goose’s child is a swimmer."
(Egyptian proverb)

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