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wokou

wokou noun: pirates of a mixture of ethnicities who raided the coastlines of China and Korea from the 13th to 16th centuries.

Noun

wokou pl (plural only)

  1. (historical, plural, plural-only) Pirates of a mixture of ethnicities who raided the coastlines of China and Korea from the 13th to 16th centuries.

Origin of wokou

From Mandarin 倭寇 (wōkòu, “Japanese pirates”).

Questions about wokou

What does wokou mean?
Wokou means pirates of a mixture of ethnicities who raided the coastlines of China and Korea from the 13th to 16th centuries.
What part of speech is wokou?
Wokou is a noun.

Words near wokou in the dictionary

  1. wokist
  2. wokists
  3. wokked
  4. wokking
  5. Woko
  6. wokou
  7. woks
  8. woku
  9. wokus
  10. WOL
  11. Wolaita

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