xinhua
/zˈɪnhjuə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.83 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
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A district of Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China.
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A district of Pingdingshan, Henan, China.
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A town in Shennongjia, Hubei, China.
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Ellipsis of Xinhua News Agency (新华社), the New China News Agency (新华通讯社); the government news agency of the People's Republic of China: XNA.
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Alternative form of Sinhua (Taiwan)
Example Sentences
- "In a move hailed by some as a step towards promoting business morality and branded as basically Orwellian by others, the country’s first community credit and reputation file system was launched in the Xinhua district of Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, on March 20, according to a report run in China Youth Daily June 9."
- "China's official news agency said Saturday it will adopt the Chinese Pinyin phonetic alphabet beginning Jan. 1, when Peking will become Beijing (pronounced bay-jing) and the agency Xinhua instead of Hsinhua."
- "The “Hsinhua News Agency,” in a wire report from Canton, said that “Yeh Chien-ying, accompanied by Wang Cheng, member of the politburo, has visited Chuhai and other places in Kwangtung province.”"
- "The explosion took place at the Xinxing Coal Mine in Hegang City, in Heilongjiang province, according to the official Xinhua news agency."
- "While in Lhasa, Xi visited a monastery and "inspected ethnic religion" and Tibetan cultural heritage protection, according to Xinhua."
- "Chen Tianhua [1875-1905] was a young man from Xinhua district in Hunan province."
Etymology
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