kinhwa
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "No doubt Monsignor is hoping to be able to return soon to his beloved Chinese people in Kinhwa, who miss him more than ever during these sad days in Chekiang Province."
- "His lieutenant was a former member of Tseng Kuo-fan's Hunan army, who resigned after the Taiping Rebellion and settled in Kinhwa."
- "South of Ningpo are Kinhwa and Lishui - the latter known at first as Chuchow, which was field headquarters for Scarboro mission bands."
Etymology
From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 金華 /金华 (Jīnhuá, literally “golden flourishing”), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 金華