kingmen
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Jingmen.
Example Sentences
- "A bomb was also dropped on April 27 on hospital property at Kingmen, Hupeh, belonging to the Covenant Missionary Society."
- "The trees did not occur in groves; however, he discovered a concentration around Kingmen (Jingmen), four or five days’ walk northeast of Ichang. After negotiating at length, he paid one hundred dollars in advance to a merchant who promised to collect several thousand pounds of ripe pears and to bring them to Kingmen in September."
Etymology
From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 荊門 /荆門 (Jīngmén), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 荊門//荆門