nan-hai
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.23 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "As for K’ang Yu-wei, his first given name was Tsu-i. He was born in 1858, in the district of Nan-hai, Kwangtung, into an old and aristocratic family which for generations had been noted for its Neo-Confucian scholarship."
- "In 1939 approximately 70 percent of Shun-te's land area was devoted to this economy, and about 90 percent of the population was engaged in one or another aspect of sericulture. Nan-hai had close to one-half the mulberry acreage of Shun-te; a little less than half its population was engaged in sericulture."
- "Bhikshu Chih-tao, a native of Nan-hai of Kwangtung, came to the patriarch for instruction, saying, "Since I joined the order I have read the Mahāparinirvāna-sūtra for more than ten years, but I have not yet grasped its main idea. Will you please teach me?""
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 南海, -