changwu
/(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋˈwu/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In the city of Changwu on the Shensi-Kansu border he executed three commanders from the Third Nationalist Army whose brutality had provoked the Red Spear uprising."
- "The threat of a war—it was feared a nuclear war—between Russia and China was brewing in the later months of 1968. (Actual hostilities broke out in 1969 and the whole school was evacuated.) Because of the general threat of possible nuclear attack, those of us who were left at the school were sent to Changwu County (a six-hour drive) to help dig fallout shelters."
- "Recent excavations in Dingjia village, Changwu County, Shaanxi Province, uncovered a cache of twenty-four small sandstone Buddhist steles in a variety of shapes and sizes."
Etymology
From Mandarin 長武 /长武.
Word Breakdown
- Root: 長武