Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

qingming festival

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.40 in modern English

Syllables: qing-ming fes-ti-val
IPA

35

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Synonym of Tomb Sweeping Day.

Etymology

A partial calque of Mandarin 清明節 /清明节 (Qīngmíngjié), using the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 清明 (Qīngmíng, “Pure & Bright”), the solar term of the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar on which the holiday is celebrated. Doublet of Pure Brightness Festival.

Origin

Source language: Chinese

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 清明

Inflected Forms

the Qingming Festival (canonical) Chingming Festival (alternative) Ching Ming Festival (alternative) Ching-ming Festival (alternative) Feast of Tsing Ming (alternative) Qing Ming Festival (alternative)

Synonyms

Tomb Sweeping Day

Questions

What does qingming festival mean?: Synonym of Tomb Sweeping Day.
Where does qingming festival come from?: It is traced to Chinese.

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