Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

baofeng

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.70 in modern English

Syllables: Bao-feng
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A county of Pingdingshan, Henan, China.

Example Sentences

"News also had been received of a rising at Pao-feng, twenty-three miles west, where the people were mid to be looting the granaries of the wealthy."
"According to the annotations by Tu Yü (杜預), the state of Ying lay to the southwest of present-day Pao Fêng (寶豐) County in Central Honan."
"In late July Father set off from Baofeng County, Henan Province, where the Central Plains Field Army was stationed, to attend the meeting in Xibaipo in his capacity as first secretary of the Central Plains Bureau."
"The 12 were repairing a shaft at a colliery in Henan province's Baofeng county when an explosion tore through the pit on Friday."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 寶豐 /宝丰 (Bǎofēng).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 寶豐

Inflected Forms

Pao-feng (alternative) Paofeng (alternative)

Questions

What does baofeng mean?: A county of Pingdingshan, Henan, China.
Where does baofeng come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 寶豐 /宝丰 (Bǎofēng).

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