ha-erh-pin
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.28 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Ha'erbin (Harbin)
Example Sentences
- "Farther inland and adjoining these riverside districts is the new city of Harbin, which developed largely after the First World War. The population of the city increased eightfold from 40,500 in 1911 to 332,000 in 1931 and then doubled to 661,000 by 1940. The city was officially called Pinkiang under Manchukuo rule. Its present official Chinese name is Harbin, which is rendered phonetically by means of the characters Ha-erh-pin."
- "The Heilungkiang plants at Ha-erh-pin (Harbin), Fu-la-erh-chi and Chia-mu-ssu are built in centers of machinery production, which includes the production of electrical equipment."
- "Nobody knows how many Chinese soldiers died. But communications along that border back to Ha-erh-pin and to Peking ceased to exist."
- "Russia negotiated yet one more agreement with China, this time to link the Liao-tung concession by rail to the Chinese Eastern Railway at Ha-erh-pin (Harbin), located in the middle of Manchuria."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 哈爾濱, -