nanching
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Nanjing.
Example Sentences
- "Other large cities such as Nanching and Kuangchou have also achieved success in afforestation. The summer heat of Nanching is well known, but the present maximum temperature has dropped considerably."
- "We don’t know how soon this spelling will be accepted extensively elsewhere, but the city will be called “Peiping” (even though there is no peace there as the name suggests) by the free Chinese in Taiwan and the ROC Government will return to Nanking ("Nanching” or “Nanjing” depending on whether one uses the Wade or Yale system and meaning “southern capital”) when the mainland is recovered."
- "Although Tao-hsin didn’t travel to the capitals of Loyang or Ch’ang-an, he did travel to Nanching on at least one occasion. According to an account in a number of early Zen annals, one day when Tao-hsin was in Emperor Wu’s old capital, he happened to notice the sky above Oxhead Mountain south of the city."