zhongwei
/d͡ʒɔŋˈweɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A prefecture-level city of the Ningxia autonomous region, China.
Example Sentences
- "The Central Weather Bureau in Taipei pinpointed the epicenter of the August 16 earthquake on the Chinese mainland at a spot in the vicinity of Chungwei, Ninghsia province.[…] Chungwei is located on a railway near the Great Wall. It is close to the boundary of Kansu. The earthquake was powerful enough to damage the ancient wall, according to seismologists."
- "WE GET OFF the train in the town of Zhongwei in the largely Muslim Ningxia autonomous region."
- "At Zhongwei we disembarked to visit a place named Shapotou, which means "at the head of a sandy slope." The name describes the location, the edge of the Tengger, a shamo where dunes creep along the foothills of the Xiangshan, an east-west mountain range."
- "The new projects approved by the commission include a rail link between Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province in central China, and the city of Zhongwei in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in the northwest, state media reported."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, ^中衛