hsi-shuang-pan-na
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.79 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
6
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Example Sentences
- "The Thai proper are related to the Shans of Burma, the Siamese of Thailand and the Lao of Indochina. The Chinese segment of the Thai ethnic group is settled in Yünnan Province, where it numbers 580,000. It constitutes the Hsi-shuang-pan-na Autonomous Chou in the southern part of the province and shares the Tehung Autonomous Chou in the west with the Chingpo (Kachin). The Thai of the Hsi-shuang-pan-na Chou speak the Lü dialect, those of the Tehung Chou are more closely related to the Shans of northern Burma."
- "In their announcement the Chinese Communists stated that "at the inaugural ceremony the Chairman and council members pledged that they would learn from the Han Chinese and the example of the Han Chinese cadres to guide the Thai people to help other national minorities to implement area autonomy, make concerted efforts to smash the sabotage activities of the American imperialists and special agents of Chiang Kai-shek's bandit gang and struggle to strengthen national defense of the fatherland and construct a new Hsi-shuang-pan-na [Sibsongpanna] area under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, Chairman Mao Tse-tung and the Central People's Government."²²"
- "In Hsi-shuang-pan-na T‘ai Autonomous Region of Yunnan Province, near the Burmese border, there are countless small monasteries generally composed of a Buddha hall, monks’ quarters, and one or two pagodas all enclosed by a wall and decorated in the regional Sino-Burmese style."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 西雙版納, -