jiangmen
/d͡ʒɑŋ.mɛn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.35 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.
Example Sentences
- "Recently, the largest high voltage electric power transmission line has been installed from Maoming to Chiangmen.[…]It is through this high voltage power line that the Maoming Thermoelectric Power Plant supplies the Pearl River Delta with a continuous flow of strong electric current. At the terminal of the line, Chiangmen City, a 220,000 volt transformer unit has been built to lower the voltage of this strong current for local users."
- "In the Internet age, in which the Chinese public is becoming increasingly vocal about their rights and mobilizing on social networks, popular protests like the demonstrations in the city of Jiangmen against the processing plant suggest a wider backlash against nuclear power.[…] The uranium processing project in Jiangmen, near Hong Kong, was supposed to supply fuel to existing and future power plants in Guangdong, a major Chinese industrial powerhouse and a center of nuclear energy expansion."
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江門 /江门 (Jiāngmén, literally “River Gate”), after its location at the mouth of the Xi or West River.
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 江門