nankang
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.12 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Nangang (Taiwan)
Example Sentences
- "This was a great spiritual blessing to him and he returned a different man. He is now out with five others at this work making his centre at Nankang."
- "The Communists now divided into two groups which crossed the Hsinfeng River by the Wangmu and Kupo ferries respectively. One group struck north-west, crossed the Chang River between Nankang and Tayu and cut across the Kanchou-Nanhsiung road to occupy Chengkuo, north of Jenhua in Kwangtung province, on November 5."
- "Going south by highway from Kanchow, the seat of the Kanchow prefecture, we first passed through Nankang county."
- "Hundreds of Chinese furniture makers overturned police cars and blocked roads in the southeastern city of Nankang on Monday, to protest a government plan to raise taxes on an industry already suffering from a decline in demand from export markets."
- "Nankang district is in Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province. The industrial economy of Nankang has continued to grow."
- "The Academia Sinica (Nankang, Taiwan) has not made available for research the Nanking government's diplomatic papers, but it has a valuable collection of documents for the pre-1927 period which are available."
Etymology
From Mandarin 南康 (Nánkāng).
Word Breakdown
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