lüda
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A former directly-administered municipality in China, from 1950 to 1954; a former prefecture-level city of Liaoning, China, from 1954 to 1981; modern Dalian.
Example Sentences
- "In 1898 Russia acquired a naval base in China, at Port Arthur (now part of the city of Lüda); Japan took over this base in 1905, Russia regained it in 1945, but in 1955 it was returned to China."
- "Lüda Lüda is a double city composed of Lüshun and Dalian, located at the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula in Liaoning Province."
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 旅大 (Lǚdà), from blend of 旅順/旅顺 (Lǚshùn, “Lüshun”) + 大連/大连 (Dàlián, “Dalian”).
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