paokang
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Baokang.
Example Sentences
- "Ho Lung’s troops have in the mean- time arrived at Paokang and Fanghsien in the north-western section of Hupeh, while the other column has captured Tanghsien and Chenping in Honan, according to the reports received at Hankow."
- "About in the center of this mountainous country lie the city and district of Paokang. The district or county is large, but it is not so thickly populated as the plains in China."
- "While Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh were organizing their soviet at Kiangsi in the 1929-30 period, Ho Lung had set up a base on the borders of Hunan and western Hupeh. His Second Army had merged with Tuan Teh-chang's Sixth Army to form the II Army Corps, under Ho's command, to defend the new soviet. But in January 1931 his men had been defeated by the Kuomintang and withdrew—with only 5,000 survivors, according to one account⁷— to Paokang in north-west Hupeh."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 保康