heihe
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A prefecture-level city of Heilongjiang, China, on the Russian border, across the Amur river from the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk.
Example Sentences
- "Nunkiang is a county of 450,000 people on a wide area, one of the counties of Heiho prefecture."
- "According to our reporter Wang Zengxiang, the organizational system of our province's Aihui County has already been canceled and in line with an official and written reply of the State Council to our province, this county will be incorporated into Heihe City.[…] Heihe City was established in 1980 with the approval of the State Council. Its administrative division covers Heihe Township of the former Aihui County, one suburban commune, and three neighboring collieries. After Aihui is incorporated into Heihe City, Heihe City will still be under the leadership of Heihe Prefecture."
- "Trade between Heihe and Blagoveshchensk reopened in 1986, and in 2000 a small special economic zone was formed along the border to encourage commerce. Shop fronts in Heihe display signs in both Chinese characters and Russian Cyrillic."
- "But the current outbreak has hit more than 40 cities, and officials in Heihe -- a northern city on the border with Russia -- said they would offer 100,000 yuan ($15,500) as a reward for information. "In order to uncover the source of this virus outbreak as soon as possible and find out the chain of transmission, it is necessary to wage a people's war of epidemic prevention and control," the city government said in a notice."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 黑河