ningsia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Automobiles are used in some parts of eastern Ningsia, but the roads are primitive. Many motor roads are mere tracks in the desert, their bridges built with a gap down the middle to prevent horsedrawn carts from using them."
- ""Where?" "To Ningsia." "Ningsia?" "You do not know it, perhaps? It is the capital of the province of the same name. To the northwest of here, near the border of Mongolia.""
- "A Chinese Communist battalion stationed in Ningsia defected to the Russians in Outer Mongolia last October as a result of Moscow’s systematic undermining of troop morale of Maoist forces deployed border, an intelligence source disclosed April 30."
Etymology
From Mandarin 寧夏／宁夏 (Níngxià).
Word Breakdown
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