xincai
/ʃɪnˈtsaɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "His first time "outside” was in February 1966. Hsintsai County had asked the Chiliying commune for twenty cotton-growing technicians, and his team picked him as one."
- "In Hsintsai county, there was Wang Hsin-an, a soldier on reserve. A break in a sluice-gate threatened the land of his brigade and immediate action was necessary so that they could be evacuated over to higher land south."
- "One example of this type of dissension within Nien ranks was reported in Hsin-ts’ai County in 1845. A Nien chief in the county had led sixteen followers to stage a robbery in which they had made off with a sizable haul of animals, clothing, and bedding.[…] Hsin-ts’ai County (Honan), 113"
- "During the Cultural Revolution I was exiled to Xincai County in Henan Province. There, 36 percent of the people starved to death in the early 1960s."
- "According to unpublished statistics from the United Nations Development Program, the number of families living below the official poverty line in Xincai, the county that includes Donghu, skyrocketed last year, to 270,000 from 40,000. Breadwinners fell ill, and families spent whatever they could scrape together for food and care."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 新蔡
Inflected Forms
Hsin-ts'ai (alternative)