jiayuguan
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A prefecture-level city of Gansu, China.
Example Sentences
- "This reconstructed Great Wall stretched from the River Yalu in the east, on the border with Korea, to Chiayükuan in Kansu Province."
- "There is a striving towards naturalism in agricultural scenes painted on bricks in tombs of the third century AD recently excavated at Chia-yü-kuan in Kansu Province which is reminiscent of later European illuminated manuscripts such as the English fifteenth-century Luttrell Psalter in the British Library."
- "Jiuquan is 150 miles into the Gobi Desert from the nearest city, Jiayuguan in Gansu Province."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 嘉峪關
Inflected Forms
Chia-yu-kuan (alternative)
Chiayukuan (alternative)