kinsha kiang
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Example Sentences
- "The original plan, strictly adhered to in our subsequent journeyings, provided that we should penetrate to the headwaters of the Kinsha Kiang, tributary of the Yangtse, and by a portage across the wild mountain fastnesses of Koko Nor descend to the source of the Hoang Ho, following its stream to the east- ward and to civilisation once more."
- "We may conjecture that in this section of the route Marco worked down into the valley of the Kinsha Kiang, Upper Yangtse, or Brius; that his Sinugul is Siuchau at the confluence of the Min and the Kiang; and that he passed into the basin of the latter river in the neighbourhood of Tungchwan ⁶."
- "The Yangtze Kiang was known to the Chinese as the Ta Chiang, or Great River, and changed its name more than once over its three thousand miles as it ran from Tibet into China; first the River of Golden Sand, then the Kinsha Kiang, then, as it deepened and boiled through its gorges to reach the sea, the Yangtze Kiang."