hsiangfen
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Xiangfen.
Example Sentences
- "Palaeolithic implements have been recovered from 1953 in the Ordos and in Shansi. The most important site is Tingtsun in Hsiangfen county of the latter province. Here were found an abundant fossil fauna, three hominid teeth and over two thousand artefacts of a type more advanced than those of Pithecanthropus pekinensis."
- "Tingtsun Man. This was discovered in November 1954 in Tingtsun Village, Hsiangfen County, Shansi Province in north-central China."
- "Excavations made since China's liberation in 1949 have unearthed more human fossils and artifacts of palaeolithic times. The site at Tingtsun in Hsiangfen County, Shansi Province, is of particular interest in this connection."
- "Out from Houma across the hills is Hsiangfen county, which has as one of its villages the Ting Tsun, where in these last few years an archæological team from the Academy of Sciences in Peking has carried out exploration and has uncovered three human teeth in a gravel seam estimated to be of a period 200,000 years ago."
- "Comrade Chai told us on our way back to the commune headquarters: “The South Shansi Opera Troupe of Hsiangfen County will present two operas. One is a new opera called Red Heart, a modern theme opera about an outstanding commune member who looks after his brigade’s draught animals, and the other is a play about trapping Kuomintang agents called On the Sea Front."
- "In 1954 P’ei directed the Tingts’un excavations at Hsiangfen, Shansi, where a new paleolithic assemblage, including three hominid teeth, was found. An analysis of the teeth revealed that Tingts’un Man was phylogenetically situated between Peking Man and Modern Man and was close to the Neanderthals, especially Ordos Man. A summary of the Tingts’un finds, by P’ei and others, appeared in 1958 under the title Shan-hsi Hsiang-fen hsien Ting-ts’un chiu-shih-ch’i shih-tai i-chih fa-chueh pao-kao [report on the excavations of the paleolithic site at Tingts’un in Hsiangfen hsien, Shansi]."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 襄汾, -