dadan
/dɑˈdɑn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.41 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Mainland China and Taiwan do not border each other by land; they face each other across a 140-km-wide ocean strait. Taiwan-held Dadan Island sits 2 km away from Xiamen. Xiamenese can use binoculars to observe their kinfolk on Dadan Island, with whom they have traditionally intermarried (Mellor, 1993)."
- "Jinmen, known historically as Quemoy, has had some success building a tourist industry on the back of its even closer link to the mainland, close enough that Taiwanese defectors were said to have swum from there to the Chinese city of Xiamen. The military is also in the process of handing over to civilian control other islands that are now restricted zones, including small islets named Erdan and Dadan."
- "Visits to Dadan, a Taiwan-held island off the coast of China and a major battleground during the Cold War, proved an instant hit following the start of tour bookings earlier this week."
Etymology
From Mandarin 大膽 (Dàdǎn).
Word Breakdown
- Root: ^大膽//