xuanwei
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A county-level city of Qujing, Yunnan, China.
Example Sentences
- "Nonsmoking women in an area of China’s Yunnan province die of lung cancer at a rate 20 times that of their counterparts in other regions of the country — and higher than anywhere else in the world.[…] Like others in rural China, the families of Xuanwei County use coal for heat and for cooking. As the coal burns, particles of silica are released with the vapor and inhaled. Women, who do the cooking, face the greatest exposure."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 宣威
Inflected Forms
Suanwei (alternative)