Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

xianfeng

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.24 in modern English

Syllables: Xian-feng
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An era name of Qing, used in 1851 – 1861.

name

A county of the Enshi autonomous region, Hubei, China.

Example Sentences

"In (Yui) commune, Hsienfeng County, Hupeh, at present 2,459 pigs are being raised and, on average, there are 4.2 pigs per household."
"His material is from the Tianheban Formation, a Redlichia trilobite-bearing Lower Cambrian unit at Zhongbao Village, Xianfeng County, Hubei Province, China; Zhang treated the bivalves from Hubei as pelecypods."
"She said that about twenty years ago she opened her first restaurant named Zhengzong Hezha Restaurant at her village, the Zhang Village, alongside the road which connects Enshi to Xianfeng County."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 咸豐 (Xiánfēng).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 咸豐

Inflected Forms

Sienfeng (alternative) Hsien-feng (alternative)

Rhymes With

youth is wasted on the young 'mong unstung

Questions

What does xianfeng mean?: An era name of Qing, used in 1851 – 1861.
Where does xianfeng come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 咸豐 (Xiánfēng).

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