tianzhen
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "On August 27th the Court crossed the Shansi border, and spent the night at T'ien-chen hsien. The local Magistrate, a Manchu, had committed suicide after hearing of the fall of Mukden and other Manchurian cities; and the town was in a condition of ruinous disorder."
- "Recently in Tienchen County, the Kweichow Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Bureau convened a forum on rice cultivation, attended by responsible cadres of the agricultural bureaus of a number of regions, autonomous chou and counties and persons concerned, together with a number of poor and lower-middle peasants."
- "Stretches of wall run through what is modern Tianzhen county, heading boldly into the Inner Mongolia to the east."
- "Its mud-and-brick buildings, and its setting among dusty hills in the north-eastern corner of Shanxi province, offer little to the occasional visitor to distinguish it from countless other parts of China where hard work brings but a meagre living. Yet Tianzhen county, of which Dingjiayan is a part, is one of just 592 areas that the central government designates as “impoverished”."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 天鎮