yangzi jiang
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.58 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The most important inland water transport takes place along three great rivers, the Xi-jiang (West River) by Guangzhou (Canton); the Yangzi Jiang, which links Shanghai, Wuhan and Chongqing (Chungking); and the Songhua Jiang (Sungari) which passes through Ha’erbin (Harbin) in the north-east."
- "The family of Ke had their roots in southern China. They came from the state of Wu, which was a large territory roughly south of the Yangzi Jiang, in present-day Wuxi county, Jiangsu province."
- "The second of China’s best-known rivers, the Yangzi Jiang (also known as the Chang Jiang), is fed by a number of tributaries that rise from that central massif that lies to the west. Crossing the Sichuan basin, the Yangzi strides across succeeding provinces in an easterly direction, finally reaching the sea close to Shanghai."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 揚子江