Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shijing

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: Shi-jing
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A town in Nan'an, Quanzhou, Fujian, China.

Example Sentences

"The day 1 February marks the 320h anniversary of the recovery of Taiwan by national hero Zheng Chenggong. With profound reverence, this reporter recently paid a visit to Shijing Township of Nanan County, Fujian Province, the hero's native place."
"Shijing, a township in Nan’an County west of Quanzhou was the ancestral home of Zheng Chenggong (1624-1662), also known as Koxinga, the famous Ming loyalist general who succeeded in chasing the Dutch out of Taiwan in the early Qing dynasty."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石井 (Shíjǐng).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 石井

Inflected Forms

Shih-ching (alternative)

Questions

What does shijing mean?: A town in Nan'an, Quanzhou, Fujian, China.
Where does shijing come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石井 (Shíjǐng).

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