qingyuan
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.21 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.
Example Sentences
- "The same point of view was expounded in a folk ditty of Hopei Province: "Bound feet, bound feet, past the gate can't retreat."⁶"
- "The political and legal affairs committee of Qingyuan district in Baoding, Hebei province, announced on Friday that it would look into the allegation after a report by The Beijing News that day. According to the report, the police officer, identified only by his family name Yang, was being tried for dereliction of duty in Qingyuan District People’s Court last month when he submitted a recording of a conversation in which the boss allegedly tells Yang and an auxiliary officer to take full responsibility for the death of a suspected criminal."
- "Lt. Col. G. B. Fisher, Three Years' Service in China (1863), p. 57, gives the following conversation between the emperor and the provincial judge of Kwangtung, referring to the campaign against rebels in Ch’ing-yüan Hsien (Kwangtung): "Question. Which are foremost in action, the regulars or the braves ? Answer. The braves, in general. . . ."
- "1945 January[…] 19. China: Japanese troops take Chingyuan, on the Canton to Hankow railway."
- "“I booked my ticket this morning after hearing the news,” said Chen Ting, who was accompanied by her three-year-old son among about 40 people getting off a train in Hubei’s Xianning city. The 28-year-old had travelled from Qingyuan city in the southern province of Guangdong, where she runs a wholesale business."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 清苑, 清原, 清遠
Inflected Forms
Ch'ing-yüan (alternative)