dongcheng
/dʊŋˈt͡ʃʌŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.14 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In Beijing’s Dongcheng District where 560,000 residents live, some 936 neighborhood stores, restaurants, health clinics, nurseries, and cultural and educational centers have been established."
- "Dongcheng Wenhuaguan, the culture museum in Dongcheng, acting like an events organizer, also has a similar group that meets every Saturday."
- "The soul of old Beijing lives on throughout Dongcheng District, where you'll find the city’s top historic sites and idyllic hutong worth getting lost in."
- "Beijing so far has reported over 300 cases under the current wave, and authorities on Saturday banned city-wide dining services starting Sunday to May 4 -- an attempt to curb infections during a holiday that is typically an annual peak consumption period. "It will have a definite impact on sales," a restaurant employee surnamed An told AFP, as she scanned for customers around Beijing's Dongcheng district -- home to historic attractions like the Forbidden City."
- "The KMT’s act of self-humiliation is reminiscent of what happened in 1948, when it was being buffeted by the storm of the Chinese Civil War. In January of that year, a group of KMT members established the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (中國國民黨革命委員會), which supported the CCP’s call, as one of its “May Day slogans,” to establish a democratic coalition government. In so doing, the committee sent a friendly message to the CCP. Today, the committee is a subordinate organization of the CCP, with its headquarters on humble Donghuangchenggen S Street in Beijing’s Dongcheng District (東城)."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 東城