Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bingtuan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bing-tu-an
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

In China, a construction and corporation composed of soldiers, especially working-class ones.

Example Sentences

"The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the state enterprise that runs the bingtuan, the vast farms set up in the 1950s and afterward by the People’s Liberation Army to help populate the frontier region, reported a drop in the number of migrants going to Xinjiang after the July riots."

Etymology

From Mandarin 兵团 (bīngtuán, “army unit, army formation”).

Word Breakdown

Root: 兵团

Questions

What does bingtuan mean?: In China, a construction and corporation composed of soldiers, especially working-class ones.
Where does bingtuan come from?: From Mandarin 兵团 (bīngtuán, “army unit, army formation”).

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