hsien-yang
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.55 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Xianyang.
Example Sentences
- "To consolidate his power, he had linked the beautiful capital, Hsien-yang, with the rest of the empire by a superb network of roads."
- "Lin Hsiang-ju immediately said to the king of Ch’in, “If Ta-wang wants fifteen cities from Chao, the king of Chao should also get something in return. What about giving him Hsien-yang as a gift?’ Hsien-yang was the capital of Ch’in."
- "So all the knowledge about these times comes from literature and, while it is likely that the magnificence of their capital cities and palaces was exaggerated, it is clear that they were fairly remarkable. But just such a city was Hsien-yang, somewhere in the vicinity of modern Hsien-fu, which was big even by contemporary standards, its population reaching nearly a million, and Ch’i (an important state in Shantung) had a capital city measuring 1.5 by 3 kilometres (0.9 X 1.8 miles)."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 咸陽, -