Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

jingbian

/ˈd͡ʒɪŋ.bi.æn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: Jing-bian
IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɪŋ.bi.æn/

18

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.

Example Sentences

"Former dwellings of Chairman Mao Tsetung in northern Shensi's Chingpien County have been opened to the public as historic sites. Chairman Mao stayed there between April and August, 1947, during the war of liberation."
"JINGBIAN, China - As a truck driver hauling crude from private wells sprouting up all over this arid countryside, Gao had a bird's-eye view of the oil boom that was sweeping this county in the 1990's.[…] The total investment was $84,000, a princely sum in northern Shaanxi Province, a hardscrabble moonscape of dusty, yellow-earth hills at the edge of the Gobi Desert.[…] Mr. Zhu's wife said he was formally arrested on June 22, after weeks of detention in Jingbian, during which the authorities denied holding him."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 靖邊 /靖边 (Jìngbiān).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 靖邊

Inflected Forms

Ching-pien (alternative)

Questions

How do you pronounce jingbian?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈd͡ʒɪŋ.bi.æn/.
What does jingbian mean?: A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.
Where does jingbian come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 靖邊 /靖边 (Jìngbiān).

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