huai'an
/ˈhwaɪˌɑn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.37 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu, in eastern China.
Example Sentences
- "In 486 B.C., King Fu Chai of Wu, in an attempt to seek supremacy in the north, constructed the Han Canal from Jiangdu to Huai'an, both in modern Jiangsu Province, so that the Huaihe River was linked with the Changjiang River."
- "Three have died in the last month, said the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, a Hong Kong-based watchdog group. They include Zhang Zhenggang, 36, a bank clerk from Huaian in Jiangsu Province, who the center said was beaten with wooden clubs on March 25 and lapsed into a coma."
- "The new cases in Wuhan, along with infections in the nearby cities of Jingzhou and Huanggang since Saturday, were linked to cases in the city of Huaian in Jiangsu province, said Li Yang, vice director of the Hubei province disease control centre."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 淮安