k'ai-p'ing
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.72 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Kaiping.
Example Sentences
- "When in the summer of 1944 the Japanese advanced to take the districts of T'ai-shan and San-shui, the county of K'ai-p'ing was menaced. The Chinese army had retreated, but the two tsu of Szu-t'u and Kuan organized themselves to fight for their homes."
- "In addition to the language difference between the two major ethnic groups, there are differences among the Cantonese themselves. For example, people in four counties to the southwest of Canton—in T'ai-shan, K'ai-p'ing, Hsin-hui, and En-p'ing counties—speak a version of Cantonese which is almost unintelligible to residents of Canton."
- "The seat of K'ai-p'ing County is 104 miles southwest of Canton. It is one of the four adjacent hsien lying to the west of the Pearl River delta, a region that has sent thousands of its residents to North America."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 開平, -