longnan
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A prefecture-level city of Gansu, China, formerly a prefecture.
Example Sentences
- "Willie Fung Wai-yiu, chairman of Top Form International, the world's biggest contract brassiere maker, said wages at the company's inland factory in Longnan county, Jiangxi province, have risen at least 35 per cent in the past 18 months."
- "During the tour Comrade Hu Yaobang inspected the two Tibetan autonomous prefectures -- Garze and Aba -- in Sichuan and over a dozen counties and districts of Longnan Special Prefecture [Long nan zhuan qu 7150 0589 1413 0575] in Gansu.[…] In Longnan Prefecture [Long nan di qu 7150 0589 0966 0575], people have gone all out to grow trees and grass in recent years, creating a new experience in developing mountainous areas."
- "This form of grassland is mainly located in the mountainous region of Longnan Prefecture, and covers a total area of 12 million mu."
- "There is the saying, ‘Two heads are better than one’. For example, I talked to over 100 women from different sectors of Longnan Prefecture twice to sensitize them to women’s issues and to build up their confidence. When I was walking down the street, I was often stopped by women who would come up and tell me how much they had changed after they heard my lectures."
- "Thousands of people rioted this week over a resettlement plan in Longnan, a poverty-stricken region of Gansu Province where 1.8 million people were made homeless by the Sichuan earthquake. Protesters in Wudu, a city in Longnan, attacked officials and the police with iron rods, chains, axes and hoes and threw stones, bricks and flowerpots, according to the local government's report of the incident."
- "In nearby Longnan in the neighboring province of Gansu, also jolted by the quake, eight people died in landslides caused by heavy rain, the People’s Daily said."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 龍南, 隴南
Synonyms
Jiezhou