chunhua
/t͡ʃuːnˈhwɑː/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.37 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "THE road in Chunhua county, Shensi province was lined with poplar trees. Waiting at a bus stop beneath one of them was a woman commune member with a child of four or five. The child kept running among the young trees, occasionally shaking them. "Don't do that," the mother scolded. "Everybody takes care of the trees and you should too." In fact, most of the roads in Chunhua county are now lined with trees and most of the people do feel about them like this farm mother."
- "The Kan-ch’üan (Sweet Spring) Palace was built on Kan-ch’üan Mountain, about fifteen miles northwest of modern Ch’un-hua 淳化 County in Shensi (T’an Ch’i-hsiang, 2:15)."
- "Moreover, as a means of communication [he built] the Direct Road, from Chiu-yüan⁴¹ to Yün-yang.⁴²"
- "A tour bus traveling through countryside in northwest China toppled off a steep hillside in Shaanxi Province on Friday, killing at least 35 people, according to state-run news media. It appeared to be the deadliest traffic accident in nine months in China, where the government has struggled to curtail the danger on roads and highways. The bus, traveling through Chunhua County, had about 46 people on board when it went off the side of the road, according to news reports citing county officials."
Etymology
From Mandarin 淳化 (Chúnhuà).
Word Breakdown
- Root: 淳化