kangting
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The drive westward, regardless of towering mountain ranges, brought the opening late in 1940 of the 133-mile section of the Szechwan-Sikang highway from Yaan to Kangting (Tachienlu), which, together with the 93-mile stretch Chengtu-Yaan (completed by the Szechwan provincial authorities in 1934), established the first motor route from Szechwan to Sikang."
- "Ya-an is the main market for a special kind of tea which is grown in this part of the country and exported in very large quantities to Tibet via Kangting and over the caravan routes through Batang to Degre."
- "Interracial relations in Sikang are by no means entirely hostile, however. In Kangting, Chinese and Tibetans get along quite well, and there is a good deal of intermarriage. In the Sichang region, there is intermarriage between Chinese and Lolos. In both these areas, there are groups of non-Chinese who have been Sinicized. Furthermore, Liu Wen-hui currently seems to be pursuing a conciliatory policy toward the Tibetans and Lolos."
- "Despite the Khampas’ efforts, between 1933 and 1949 the town of Chamdo and the entire area west of the Yangtze remained under the rule of governors appointed by Lhasa, and the border town of Kangting continued under Chinese rule."
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