Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

qilian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: Qi-lian
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A county of Haibei, Qinghai, China.

Example Sentences

"A Tibetan-nationality woman cadre in (Tolien) commune, Chilien County, Haipei Tibetan Autonomous Chou, fearing no hardships, made a 4-day journey on horseback to register for college enrollment in the county seat."
"The reports of the past few days have been made by the nine of us from around Gangcha county and Qilian county, because we wanted to really understand the avian influenza situation in Qinghai. We came disguised as tourists to carry out on-the-spot interviews ... only by coming to this place can you realise just how poor China can be. Anyone with a conscience would shed tears."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 祁連 /祁连 (Qílián).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 祁連

Questions

What does qilian mean?: A county of Haibei, Qinghai, China.
Where does qilian come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 祁連 /祁连 (Qílián).

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