kaihsienkung
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Example Sentences
- "The village chosen for my investigation is called Kaihsienkung, locally pronounced kejiug’on. It is situated on the south-east bank of Lake Tai, in the lower course of the Yangtze River and about eighty miles west of Shanghai."
- "At the time of Fei’s study, Kaihsienkung had two headmen. The elder of the two did not deal with the higher government, having allowed a younger man to fill the official post."
- "Geddes goes over what Fei said on cross-cousin marriage in the village, amplifying the analysis at one point, but not treating the matter more generally. The implication appears to be that cross-cousin marriage no longer takes place in Kaihsienkung."
- "Since it is unlikely that these families averaged more than one unmarried son old enough to be matched with a t’ung-yang-hsi, these figures suggest that minor marriages accounted for approximately 20 percent of all first marriages. This was in 1931. Five years later the distinguished anthropologist Fei Hsiao-tung found approximately the same incidence of minor marriage in Kaihsienkung, a village on the shore of Lake T’ai in southern Kiangsu."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 開弦弓, -