English Explanatory Dictionary

wokou

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Pirates of a mixture of ethnicities who raided the coastlines of China and Korea from the 13th to 16th centuries.

Word forms

wokou

Etymology

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

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