hengshui
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A prefecture-level city of Hebei, China.
Example Sentences
- "The dust-storms have been not merely unintermittent, but of a frightful character, even for North China. Within the past two or three weeks they have taken the form of violent winds, each of which at sea would almost make a young typhoon. In the Hengshui district we hear that the roof of a theatrical pavilion was blown for miles, and that two children were blown away, one killed, and the other never heard of."
- "The New China agency reported that numerous building and houses collapsed but that the number of casualties was less than on 8 March, when people had been caught in their sleep. The worst damage was done at Hsing-t’ai, Heng-shui and Shih-chia-chuang [1]; numerous aftershocks (Nos. 186-90) were felt in the same region up to 29 March."
- "The People's Daily on March 3 demanded that "hsia ma" items be attended to with proper rehabilitation efforts. "Through maximum utilization, dead things should be brought back alive," the editorial on page 1 urged. Two-thirds of page 2 was devoted to a description of how an iron mill at Hengshui, Hopei province, was torn into pieces and sold at giveaway prices."
- "The Voice of China radio said the accident, the latest in a series of deadly industrial incidents, occurred around 8 a.m. in the Hebei province city of Hengshui."
Etymology
From Mandarin 衡水 (Héngshuǐ).
Word Breakdown
- Root: 衡水
Inflected Forms
Heng-shui (alternative)