xingyang
/ʃɪŋˈjæŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
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A county-level city of Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
Example Sentences
- "Wu Kuang, who had been leading another army in an attack at Hsingyang (west of present-day Chengchow in Honan province), a strategic town held by the Chin forces, was killed by a subordinate officer."
- "Only the teams continued to function as production units, but for them, the pre-1958 term "agricultural production cooperative" was now used again.⁶⁹ Similar provisions were suggested in a statement made by the secretary of the district (ti-ch'ü) PC of Hsingyang in Honan,⁷⁰ a move that seems particularly delicate because the district of Hsingyang includes Suip'ing hsien, where, in mid-April 1958, the first people's commune in China had been established."
- "With hundreds of homes around him demolished, and fearing for his own, Zhou Jianbang, a man in Xingyang city, Henan Province, has built a half-dozen black “cannons” and stationed them around his house as warning to demolition teams to stay away, a state-run news agency reported."
- "The death toll has jumped to 99 from floods that hit a province in central China last week, authorities said Thursday. An official in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province, announced 26 more deaths in two outlying areas, state media reported. Of them, 18 were to the southwest in Xinmi city, and eight to the west in Xingyang city."
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