kwangtung
/ˈkwɑŋˈtʊŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.57 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Guangdong.
Example Sentences
- "Nan Yueh is the old Kingdom of Co-chin-China which in A.D. 222 was divided into Chiao-Chou or Tonquin and what is now the area covered by Kwangtung and Kwangsi."
- "On April 5, 1925, Chiang Kai-shek returned from the First Eastern Expedition to the Whampoa Military Academy to officiate at a funeral service for Sun Yat-sen, who had died in Peking on March 12. Huang Chi-lu, then a young professor of political science at the University of Kwangtung and destined to become director of the Kuomintang Archives some forty years later, has informed us of the display of strong emotion evidenced by Chiang on this occasion: "The service was officiated by Mr. Chiang and Liao Chung-k'ai and was attended by over four thousand officers, cadets, and soldiers. As the funeral ceremonies began, Mr. Chiang, unable to control himself, wept bitterly and audibly, causing all in the assembly to shed tears.""
- "The intelligence reports also said that some 10,000 intellectual youths, who had been sent to rural areas for hard labor and have returned to the cities, staged a demonstration recently in front of the "revolutionary committee" office in Yangchun County, Kwangtung Province."
- "Writer Ta Chen, in a statistical study of industrial labor in China in 1933, recorded that 66.6 percent of the total number of workers in the four main industrial regions of Kwangtung were women. In Shun-te, 81.2 percent of the labor force were women."
- ""WHERE WERE YOU born?" Superintendent Wu asks again. "Yin Bo Village in Kwangtung province," I answer."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 廣東
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkwɑŋˈtʊŋ/
- British English: /ˈkwæŋˈtʊŋ/
Phrases
Kwangtung ware