ji
/dʒi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.89 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Initialism of John Innes, a generic range of horticultural composts.
name
Initialism of Jemaah Islamiyah, an Islamist militant organization based in Indonesia.
name
Abbreviation of East Java: a province of Indonesia.
name
An ancient settlement in northeastern China within modern Beijing.
Example Sentences
- "JI No 1, JI No 2, etc"
- "At a brigade in Ji county in south-eastern Shanxi, not really in mountain country, yields per mou were raised from 56 jin to 194 jin during the 1970s."
- "Subject of poetry, art and legend, Hukou Waterfall is the second largest falls in China, located on the Yellow River, between Ji County, Shanxi Province and Yichuan County, Shaanixi^([sic – meaning Shaanxi]) Provine^([sic – meaning Province])."
- "Apple orchards in the city of Linfen, north China's Shanxi province, have been making steady progress toward a model of sustainable farming, helping create important economic opportunities for local farmers. The orchards are situated in Jixian county, an area well-known for its history of agriculture."
- "The 34.2 kilometre (21.3 mile) pipeline, which will be built by Qinjin Natural Gas Co, is designed to have annual gas transmission capacity of 3.3 billion cubic metres and connect Ji county in Shanxi and Yichuan county in Shaanxi."
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 薊 /蓟 (Jì), literally thistle or thistles.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 薊, 吉, 姞