shantung peninsula
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Example Sentences
- "The Yellow River—the “Sorrow of China”—comes down from the loess hills into the great plain of China on a gently sloping fan. The river has two possible outlets to the sea, the one north of the Shantung Peninsula into the Gulf of Chihli, the other some hundreds of miles to the south of the Peninsula."
- "Having secured agreement from the Allies and the United States to Japan’s claims to the Shantung peninsula, the Japanese government now supported Duan’s military efforts, offered loans, and provided technical assistance."
- "In response to British requests for material assistance during the war, and in exchange for cooperation in territorial moves both in the central Pacific and on the Shantung peninsula in China, Japan deployed a naval task force consisting of a cruiser and eight destroyers to bolster Royal Navy operations in the Mediterranean theater."