nanle
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In 1993, the district government’s unreasonable grain tax incited a collective tax refusal by the peasant inhabitants of Jing Degu village in Jing Degu district in Nanle county (Henan province)."
- "In another case in Nanle County of Henan, the authorities arrested the leader of the Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement Committee and several coworkers. This Christian leader in the officially sanctioned church had engaged in a series of weiquan activities."
- "Meanwhile, the Weiquanwang rights website reported growing fears for the health of Henan Protestant pastor Zhang Shaojie, who is halfway through a 12-year jail term for "gathering a crowd to disrupt public order" after his church ran afoul of authorities in Henan's Nanle county.[...] After officials seized control of Zhang's state-sanctioned church in 2013, sealing it off from the congregation, hundreds of Protestant worshipers from Shenzhen, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Hebei, Shandong, and Beijing converged on Nanle county over Christmas to show support for the church, which was a member of the Chinese Communist Party's Three-Self Patriotic Association of Protestant churches."
Etymology
From Mandarin 南樂 /南乐 (Nánlè).
Word Breakdown
- Root: 南樂