lufeng
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.23 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A county-level city of Shanwei, Guangdong, China.
Example Sentences
- "Other speakers included (Chen Chun-keng), leaders of the Haifeng and Lufeng county CCP committees and representatives of the old revolutionary bases."
- "In Lu-feng county in Kuangtung, for example, the P’eng clan is called "P’eng Pan Hsien" (P’engs of half a county) because the clan numbers some 200,000 among the county's population of 400,000."
- "P’eng P’ai was able to return to Hai-feng county on the heels of the Eastern Expedition at the end of February 1925 and to revive his shattered movement there. Membership grew rapidly to a reported 70,000, with 12,000 in neighbouring Lu-feng county, but Ch’en Chiung-ming’s troops recovered these counties in the summer and again the movement was driven underground."
- "It was the third day of tensions in Lufeng. Hundreds of villagers attacked government buildings, according to a statement by the municipal government of Shanwei region, which includes Lufeng."
- "Hsinhua said that the almost complete lower jawbone, two other fossilized jawbones and more than 40 fossilized teeth from ancient apes were found in coal seams in Lufeng county in the southwest province of Yunnan."
- "The Chuhsiung Autonomous Prefecture of Yi nationality [I-tsu] in Yunnan Province has made steady progress in developing industry since it was set up in 1958.[…]A farm tool workshop in Lufeng county is now able to turn out five-ton carts, cranes, sand sifters, water pipes, cement mixers and tractor parts. At the start it could only produce spades and sickles."
Etymology
From Mandarin 陸豐/陆丰 (Lùfēng).
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 祿豐
Inflected Forms
Lukfung (alternative)
Lu-feng (alternative)