changyuan
/(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋˈwɑn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A county-level city of Xinxiang, Henan, China.
Example Sentences
- "Happily, Tung Ming Hsien is south of the Yellow River. Here the work of the church and school proceeds normally. The General Committee also has a group of eight preachers out in the remote country places of the Tung Ming counties and the southern end of the Ch’ang Yuan county, which lies south of the Yellow River."
- "Comrade Chiao Chun-liang was an operator in Chengchow Municipal Telecommunications Bureau. He was a native of Changyuan County, Honan, and was born in the family of a lower-middle peasant in the spring of 1936."
- "A county in central China plans in-depth checks on how its officials’ treat their parents, with those who are nice to their mum and dad first in line for promotion, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday. Up to 500 family members, friends, colleagues and neighbours will be grilled by special investigators about the behaviour of each official from Changyuan county, including their family values and any drinking or gambling habits, the report said."
Etymology
From Mandarin 長垣 /长垣 (Chángyuán).
Word Breakdown
- Root: 長垣