chungyang shanmo
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Synonym of Central Mountain Range on Taiwan: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
Example Sentences
- "The East-West Cross-Island Highway, costing almost $11 million, is completed after nearly four years of labor by 100,000 workers. It opens the Chungyang Shanmo in eastern Taiwan to development by agricultural and logging interests and tourism."
- "Taiwan’s most prominent topographical feature is the Chungyang Shanmo (Central Mountain Range), a ridge of towering mountains that runs for about 270 km (167 miles) of the island’s length and formed by ancient tectonic, and, to a lesser extent, volcanic activity."
- "Half of the main island of Taiwan is covered by a mountain range called the Chungyang Shanmo (CHONG-yuhng SHUHN-mor) mountains."
Etymology
From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 中央山脈 /中央山脉 (Zhōngyāng Shānmò, “Central Mountain Range”), Wade-Giles romanization: Chung¹-yang¹ Shan¹-mo⁴.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 中央山脈
Synonyms
Central Mountain Range on Taiwan