ningpo
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.33 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Ningbo, a port-city, prefecture-level city and subprovincial city in Zhejiang, China.
Example Sentences
- "In Ningpo, the ninth City of the Province of Chekiang, both ſides of the Artificial Rivers, for ſeveral miles together, are made up with Stone : At the end of every River lyes a Sluce, through which all Veſſels muſt paſs before they come into it."
- "In the Lower Yangtze plain section of Chekiang, rice is associated with winter wheat and with silk and cotton. Cotton is also cultivated-on the south shore of Hangchow Bay, chiefly around Yüyao, from where it is shipped to Shanghai and Ningpo."
- "The Shang-yü gazetteer describes the increasing unruliness of tenants from the Opium War period on, and rather disingenuously places all the blame on the unrest stirred up by the British invasion of Ningpo at that time."
- "She grew up in Chevy Chase; Long Beach, Calif.; Ningpo, China; and Geneva as the family moved because of her father's Navy assignments."
- "The men from Ningpo who'd moved to Shanghai and created banking empires are just the type of bankers Jack likes: tight-lipped."
- "Yamei Kin was born in 1864 in the eastern Chinese city of Ningpo, now called Ningbo, to a Chinese pastor and his wife, according to an annotated bibliography of Kin’s life that was published in 2016 by the SoyInfo Center in California."