Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

zhijiang

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: Zhi-jiang
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An autonomous county of Huaihua, Hunan, China.

name

A county-level city of Yichang, Hubei, China.

Example Sentences

"Kingcheu commands over thirteen Cities, as Kingcheu, Cunggan, Xexeu, Kienli, Sungki, Chikiang, Iling, Changyang, Itu, Juengan, Quei, Hingxan, Patung."
"By evening, officials planned to also close off Huanggang, a city of seven million about 30 miles east of Wuhan, shut rail stations in the nearby city of Ezhou, which has about one million residents, and impose travel restrictions on the smaller cities of Chibi and Zhijiang."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 芷江 (Zhǐjiāng).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 芷江, 枝江

Inflected Forms

Chihkiang (alternative) Chih-chiang (alternative) Chihchiang (alternative)

Questions

What does zhijiang mean?: An autonomous county of Huaihua, Hunan, China.
Where does zhijiang come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 芷江 (Zhǐjiāng).

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