tinpak
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "At Tinpak the chief magistrate, who had become slightly acquainted with the English from residing a short time in the house of a Hong merchant at Canton, was remarkably attentive to the officers employed on the survey in the China seas, and even offered them his assistance in their particular pursuits."
- "Junks from Pakhoi, Hoihow and Tinpak, in the south-west, commenced in 1846 a prosperous trade with Hongkong."
- "After two days in Shekkwat, we went on to Kaushing, only an hour away. This was formerly the prefectural city of Tinpak, before Maoming came into existence. The old walls are still standing, but as it was over five hundred years ago that Tinpak was divided, nobody knows anything about the old town."
- "He will fly back to Spain if the condition of his damaged airplane at Tinpak, China, permits."
- "The communique also announced that Tinpak, on the Kwangtung coast 150 miles west of Hong Kong, had been retaken."
- "In South China, the Chinese after recapturing Tinpak to disrupt the Japanese communications along the coastal highway between the Liuchow peninsula and Canton, have now advanced to a point 9 miles east of Tinpak."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 電白
Usage
Inflected Forms
Tien-pak (alternative)