lijiang
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.96 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Example Sentences
- "The main road to Lichiang-fu, by Ho-ch'ing, is not followed by the muleteers, except by request, as there is a high mountain to cross."
- "On board the Chinese satellite Micius, which launched last year, a high energy laser was fired through a special kind of crystal, generating entangled photon pairs. This in itself was a feat: the process is sensitive to turbulence, and before the experiment launched scientists weren't completely sure it would work. These photons were transmitted to ground stations in Delingha, a city on the Tibetan Plateau, and Lijiang, in China's far southwest."
- "A 5.5 magnitude earthquake that rattled the city of Lijiang in southwestern China's Yunnan province on Sunday injured 15 people, the Yunnan Earthquake Agency said on its social media feed."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 麗江
Inflected Forms
Li-chiang (alternative)
Likiang (alternative, dated)