nan-ning
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.82 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Nanning.
Example Sentences
- "My flight was going to Wu-han and Nan-ning and thence to Hanoi, which caused a certain interest; it is not every day that British passports go to North Vietnam. My immigration official was suitably inscrutable; he took the thing as no great drama (which it certainly was to me), rather did he appear to regard the trip as a quaint eccentricity."
- "One hot summer day in the Chinese city of Nan-ning, I wandered through a park of lotus leaves and exotic flowers to a pagoda where ancient women sat, drowsily, happily playing mahjongg amidst the scent of flowers, and that excellent sound of clicking tiles enchanted me; I was far from home, but that long slow summer afternoon with the mah-jongg sounds brought me back to my own continent and specifically to Mexicali, whose summer tranquillity never ends."
- "In January, Chairman Mao goes to the city of Nan-ning to give a speech launching what he calls the Great Leap Forward."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 南寧, -