fengshan
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.04 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A county of Hechi, Guangxi autonomous region, China.
name
Alternative form of Fongshan (Taiwan)
Example Sentences
- "On 20 April, 1991, while collecting taxes in Xiahe Township, Yao Yuanling, a tax assistant at Fengshan County, Guangxi, was hit on the head—with an ax—by a scoundrel, and died in the line of duty."
- "Huang Deyi, 51, a deputy city mayor in Guangxi autonomous region, stood trial this week after he confessed to taking more than 5 million yuan (HK$6 million) in bribes over six years, the Nanguo Morning News reported. The fall of Huang Deyi, 51, followed residents’ complaints that he had spent 50 million yuan to have the giant fresco carved at the entry to Fengshan county, which he headed at the time, in the northwest of the scenic but impoverished region."
- "In April, 1868, a mob destroyed the Roman Catholic and (English) Protestant churches at Fengshan, in Formosa, the exciting cause being a report that the missionaries were administering a poisonous drug in secret doses to win Formosa converts."
- "Scheduled to be completed in three stages by 1978, the freeway will link Keelung on the north coast of Taiwan near Taipei with Fengshan near the seaport of Kaohsiung, in southwest Taiwan.[...] Construction will get under way in May next for the 55-kilometer (33-mile) section between Tainan and Fengshan and in January 1976 for still another section between Hsinchu and Taichung, in central Taiwan."
- "WeiWuYing is a performing arts centre in the Fengshan District of Kaohsiung, in Taiwan. Completed in 2018 by Orgelbau Klais Bonn, the centre’s great instrument has 127 stops and 9,085 pipes. By all accounts, it is the largest pipe organ in Asia."
- "Police are of course not immune to the disease, with over 400 of them coming down with COVID in Kaohsiung City.[…] In addition to the police, Fengshan is currently the district with the largest number of confirmed cases in Kaohsiung."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 鳳山