luntai
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A county of Bayingolin prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Example Sentences
- "In many cases, the Postal Guide gives the Chinese name alone. This applies to most small places, and it is not always easy to identify Chinese post offices with Turki villages ; e.g. are Luntai (east of Kucha) and Shanshan (east of Turfan), as shown in the somewhat diagrammatic Postal Atlas of China, identical with the Bugur and Pichan of the Survey of India maps?"
- "In September, state media said police shot dead 40 rioters, some of whom were seeking to blow themselves up, after explosions went off in Luntai county."
Etymology
From the Mandarin 輪臺 /輪台 /轮台 (Lúntái).
Word Breakdown
- Root: 輪臺//輪台//轮台