Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

k'ai-yüan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English

Syllables: k'ai-yuan
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Alternative form of Kaiyuan.

name

Alternative form of Kaiyuan.

Example Sentences

"We left Kirin at 10 A.M. on the 28th of January on our return to the port. Instead of retracing our steps by way of K’uan-ch’êng-tzŭ w^e resolved to follow the imperial highroad, which runs south-west from Kirin and joins the main road a little to the south of K’ai-yüan Hsien."
"At the height of the power of the Ch’i-tan Liao, the latter, having taken prisoners people of various countries, deported them and distributed them about this region between the Sungari and the K’ai-yüan Hsien country."
"Born in K’ai-yüan county of Liaoning, Manchuria, in 1893, Sheng Shih-ts’ai had been reared "in a small family" and amid conditions of "poverty" and "cold.""

Etymology

From Mandarin 開原 /开原 (Kāiyuán) Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻai¹-yüan².

Word Breakdown

Root: 開原, -, 開遠

Questions

What does k'ai-yüan mean?: Alternative form of Kaiyuan.
Where does k'ai-yüan come from?: From Mandarin 開原 /开原 (Kāiyuán) Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻai¹-yüan².

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