lake khanka
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.02 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A lake on the border between Mishan, Jixi, Heilongjiang, China and Primorsky Krai, Russia.
Example Sentences
- "More recently, Colonel Pontiata, a Russian explorer, reported the existence of rich alluvial deposits on the Morena, not far from Lake Khanka. The Morena is in the extreme eastern portion of Manchuria and is a tributary of the Oussouri."
- "While deciduous forests form the dominant type of vegetation, considerable areas are covered by the so-called Amur steppes, located in the Amur region, along the lower Amur River, and around Lake Khanka."
- "Lake Khanka (or Hanka), called by the Chinese Hsing-K’ai-Hu, lies on the border between eastern Manchuria and the extreme southern panhandle of the Soviet Far East known as the Maritime Kray."
- "Chinese endurance swimmer Zhang Jie is aiming to learn how to sleep and eat on the go before attempting a record 40-hour open water marathon across Lake Khanka in August."
- "A Siberian tiger that wandered into a Russian village from China was videotaped attacking a car, terrifying its occupants, and then literally running over a female farmer as villagers attempted to scare it away from the area. The incident occurred in the village of Turiy Rog in the Russian province of Primary^([sic – meaning Primorsky/Primorye]) on the northwestern shore of Lake Khanka."
Etymology
Partial calque of Russian о́зеро Ха́нка (ózero Xánka)