dingxiang
/ˈdiŋʒeɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I knew a young woman of twenty who lived in the town of Tinghsiang in the province of Shansi. She worked in a clothing cooperative and earned thirty yuans a month."
- "In the memorial speech Chang Chen said: Comrade Chang Lien-kuei was a native of Tinghsiang County, Shansi Province. As a youngster, he actively took part in revolutionary activities. He was admitted to the CCP in December 1935. He had served successively as secretary of the Tinghsiang County CCP Committee, secretary of the second area party committee of the Peiyueh District of the Shansi-Chahar-Hopei border region and concurrently political commissar of the Second Military District, PLA political commissar, vice minister of the First Ministry of Machine Building and the Second Ministry of Machine Building, and vice minister of the Third Ministry of Machine Building."
- "The mural in the Holingor Han tomb shows that toward the end of the Eastern Han at the latest Dingxiang 定襄 Prefecture (in the north of modern Shanxi, transferred there from Inner Mongolia) also had mulberry cultivation."
- "In neighbouring Xinxian prefecture, immediately to the south of Yanbei, is Hengshan brigade, Dingxiang county."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 定襄
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdiŋʒeɪŋ/
Inflected Forms
Ting-hsiang (alternative)