lantien
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Lantian.
Example Sentences
- "Choukoutien, 30 miles south‐ west of Peking, is only one of three sites where remains of the ape‐man have been found. Bones that are even older than Peking Man, though less numerous, have also been found at Yuanmou in Yunnan Province and at Lantien in Shensi."
- "The fossilized skull and jaw-bone of Lantien Man, dating from about 600,000 years ago, together with some very primitive stone tools, were found in Lantien County, Shensi Province in 1963 and 1964."
- "After five years of listening to the Wuchen River chant the Dharma, Shan-tao left the Lantien area and moved to the nearby outskirts of Ch'ang-an, where he spent most of his remaining years preaching and painting pictures of the Pure Land."