kuantien
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Guantian (Tainan, Taiwan).
Example Sentences
- "I was born on February 18, 1951 in a plain tiled house in the village of Hsichuang, Kuantien Township, Tainan County."
- "The crisp, mildly sweet water chestnut – "bee-chee" in Mandarin – is the biggest export from the Kuantien district in central Tainan County. The 130-year-old, white and red brick, southern Fujianese-style house is Kuantien’s biggest tourist magnet because it was the boyhood home of Chen Shui-bian."
- "A new cycle route in Tainan’s Kuantien District is being touted as the perfect family holiday destination.[…] September to December is the prime harvest season for water chestnuts in Kuantien District."
- "China Steel Structure Co workers operate equipment at a factory in Tainan’s Kuantien District on Jan. 6."
- "The plane, which the radio broadcast identified as a heavy bomber, came from the direction of Chosan in Korea at 10:43 P. M. Aug. 29, dropped one bomb at Shihchutzechen in Kuantien County of Liaoning Province and then flew off "in the direction of Korea.""
- "The Peking radio said the American jet-fighter plane which was shot down Apr. 13 at 9:16 A.M. 9 kilometers northwest of Changtienhokou (Kuantien County, Liaotung Province) had—with 1 other plane—strafed several villages, wounding a woman and killing a cow."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 官田, -, 寬甸//