Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pingdingshan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.05 in modern English

Syllables: Ping-ding-shan
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.

Example Sentences

"Together with nearby Lushan county, Pingdingshan was the champion in Henan province’s iron and steel production. Here more than forty thousand agriculture laborers had been diverted to make iron and steel."
"On the edges of an old and depleted mine on the rugged outskirts of Pingdingshan in central China's Henan province, workers sift through dunes of low-grade coal, looking to extract every last calorie of energy from the city's crumbling seams."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 平頂山 /平顶山 (píngdǐngshān).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 平頂山

Inflected Forms

P'ing-ting-shan (alternative) Pingtingshan (alternative)

Rhymes With

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Questions

What does pingdingshan mean?: A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.
Where does pingdingshan come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 平頂山 /平顶山 (píngdǐngshān).

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