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nanzhili

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
Nan-zhi-li
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A former Chinese province of the Ming Dynasty which contained the capital of Nanjing, later renamed Jiangnan by the Qing Dynasty and divided into Jiangsu and Anhui under the Qianlong Emperor.

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 南直隸 /南直隶 (Nánzhílì).

Word Breakdown

  • Root: -, 南直隸

Inflected Forms

Nan-chih-li (alternative) Nanchihli (alternative)

Synonyms

Jiangnan

Questions

What does nanzhili mean?
A former Chinese province of the Ming Dynasty which contained the capital of Nanjing, later renamed Jiangnan by the Qing Dynasty and divided into Jiangsu and Anhui under the Qianlong Emperor.
Where does nanzhili come from?
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 南直隸 /南直隶 (Nánzhílì).

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