nanhui
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "-- China’s State Council has approved the merger of the Shanghai Pudong New District with the neighbouring Nanhui district, the Shanghai municipal government said.[...] -- The Pudong district of Shanghai, the country’s financial and commercial hub, is about to more than double in size as it will merge with neighbouring Nanhui district."
- "The city’s anti-corruption watchdog announced that Wu Zhongquan, former director of the Construction and Transportation Commission in Shanghai’s Minhang district, and Tang Guiming, former party secretary of Xuanqiao county in the now defunct Nanhui district were being investigated for “serious disciplinary violations”, a phrase routinely used as a euphemism for corruption. Also being investigated were Zhu Jinhua, former deputy director of the urban planning and land management department in Nanhui, and Zhang Wenjun, former bureau chief of Nanhui’s housing and land administration bureau."
Etymology
From Mandarin 南匯 /南汇 (Nánhuì).
Word Breakdown
- Root: 南匯
Inflected Forms
Nanhwei (alternative)