anking
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Adjoining the province of Kiangsu is the province of Anhui and in two of its river cities, Wuhu and Anking, we have centers of work."
- "Plainly it was not the custom for a foreigner to travel down the Yangtze on a small boat, for no sooner was I nicely settled on the deck of a tug about to leave for Anking, ninety miles down the river, than a boatload of Chinese river police pulled alongside and requested to see my passport."
- "But Anhui as a whole was still far from conquered ; the Taipings remained in Anking and only small detachments of loyal troops were available for necessary attacks on a few specific localities."
- "By autumn 1856, practically all the cities in North Anhwei had been lost to the Imperialists but T’ung-ch’eng, north of Anking."
Etymology
From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 安慶 /安庆 (Ānqìng), from before the modern palatalization of [kʰ] to [t͡ɕʰ].
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 安慶