hoisan
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Mr. Dempsey stressed the fact that the beneficiaries will be well provided for financially if they are permitted to remain in the United States, and that the beneficiaries are fearful of returning to China because their husband-father was killed by the Communists in Hoisan in 1951."
- "ML’s response to WL, that Hoisan people are like “soul people,” or people who are connected with soul music, ties back to his original point about passion and life: not only are Hoisan people connected to soul people from a musical perspective, to have “soul” also refers to having emotional energy or intensity, something ML had previously stated is a positive attribute of Hoisan-wa."
- "Like other familial networks that spanned the Cantonese Pacific during the nineteenth and twentieth century, that of the Mahs from Hoisan consisted of discrete sets of interconnected migrations that originated in a small number of villages in a small number of villages in a few counties, dispersing in a recurring pattern over many generations to multiple destinations across a vast space."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
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