overwordExplorer
ENGLISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

Erlitou.

A Bronze Age culture along the Yellow River in China

7 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

name
  1. A Bronze Age culture along the Yellow River in China

  2. A village in Yanshi district, Luoyang, Henan, China.

Where this word comes from

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 二里頭 (Èrlǐtóu, literally “two Li head”).

FROM WORD TO NAME

Try it on your idea.

Erlitou has 7 characters. Say it out loud, try it alongside a description of your project, and see whether its meaning fits what you want to create.

Erlitou studioErlitou workshello, Erlitou

These are naming prompts. Meanings and pronunciation can vary; existing brand and domain uses have not been checked.

Explore the name generator

A word with a source.

Definitions, grammatical labels, IPA, etymology and examples: Wiktionary contributors, extracted by Kaikki / Wiktextract. Adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected fields and authored examples are shown; third-party quotations and audio are omitted. See contributor history.

Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.