nankai
/næŋkˈaɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.68 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Beginning with study and research, the Finance Bureau and the Coal and Building Materials Supply Company of Tientsin's Nan-k'ai District used the method of "chieh-p'ou ma-ch'iao" [translating 解剖麻雀] to help the coal industry's retail sales departments improve business management, strengthen marketing cooperation, and decrease coal losses and achieved success."
- "In the Nankai District of Tianjin, 20 percent of 2,555 individual businesspeople were illiterate, mainly housewives, 40 percent were primary school graduates, 15 percent junior middle school graduates, and 35 percent senior middle school graduates. That district reported five or six college graduates, mainly artists who drew blueprints."
- "The report alleged that the Hong Kong-registered association lacked the right credentials to qualify as a nonprofit group. The sleuthing reporter tracked down the website of the China Urine Therapy Association and found grounds for suspicion there as well. “After visiting the physical address for the website, it was found to be in an old residential neighborhood of Nankai District in Tianjin,” a port city near Beijing, the report said. “There was an old man inside, and he had nothing to do with urine therapy.”"
Etymology
From Mandarin 南開 /南开 (Nánkāi).
Word Breakdown
- Root: 南開