lan-t'ien
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.02 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Lantian.
Example Sentences
- "On this king Hwâi called out all the military strength of his kingdom and led it deep into Chʻin, with whose forces another battle was fought at Lan-tʻien.² . . . ² Meaning "Indigo Fields." A district of the department of Hsî-an still bears the name."
- "We have imagined the habitat of Lan-tʻien Man and his palaeolithic successors to be relatively open terrain of woods and grassland."
- "The first real human beings in China lived about 600,000 years ago. Fossils of Gigantopithecus, a Latin name for Giant Ape, were dug up at Lan-t'ien in the early 1960s. Though they looked a lot like apes, the Lan-t'ien people were among the first of our species to make tools."
- "Of more importance are Wang Wei's descriptions of landscapes, particularly those at his country home at Lan-t'ien southeast of Ch'ang-an."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 藍田, -