hai'an
/ˈhaɪˌɑn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A county-level city of Nantong, Jiangsu, China.
name
A residential community in Chenjiagang, Xiangshui, Yancheng, Jiangsu, China.
Example Sentences
- "Fei therefore proposes refining this correlation of economic development and geographic identity. "If the matter is given more thought," he remarks, "it can be seen that the northern part of the Nantong Municipality that includes Hai’an and Rudong counties is not very much influenced economically by Shanghai.""
- "The couple didn’t have money for even the simplest of weddings, so they told their parents that they had the ceremony in Nanjing and told their Nanda classmates that they had married back in Hai’an. After a month at home in Hai’an, the couple returned to Nanjing, spent a day packing up their worldly possessions—ten boxes of books, two wooden trunks, and an envelope containing one hundred yuan (sixteen dollars) in borrowed money—and boarded the train to Hefei, the capital of Anhui."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 海安
Inflected Forms
Haian (alternative)
Hai-an (alternative)