lyushunkou
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Lüshunkou.
Example Sentences
- "If Mukden sought to reflect the battles of the past, the five-month Siege of Port Arthur anticipated the future of war. The Siege of Port Arthur, as China’s Lyushunkou District was then known, proved to be iconoclastic."
- "On the legal documents, he carried, Boris's last ports of call were Lyushunkou District/Port Arthur and Dalian on the tip of Manchuria-a two or three-day sailing trip around the southern tip of Chosŏn from the Yellow Sea and back to Vladivostok on the Sea of Japan."
- "The so-called Twenty-one Demands that extended the lease of Lyushunkou and Dalian had a section that invalidated the "Treaty regarding South Manchuria and East Mongolia” (established 1915), and there was a movement to return these lands to China, including the organization of anti-Japanese boycotts."
- "The Kwantung Territory became the first and last colony of the Russian Empire located outside its borders. The port of Lyushunkou, already widely known as Port Arthur, was destined to become a military base of Russia, while the port of Dalianvan, which was named “Dalniy”, was intended to be a commercial port."
Etymology
From a modified form of the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 旅順口／旅顺口 (Lǚshùnkǒu).
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