qiqihar
/ˈt͡ʃit͡ʃiˌhɑɹ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A city in Heilongjiang, China.
Example Sentences
- "On April 28 the Chinese Communists occupied Qiqihar, a railroad center in Manchuria."
- "In the grounds of my hotel at Qiqihar, Heilongjiang province, on 8th May 1983, I (J.B.) found a local bird-catcher with six traps slung from a tree."
- "The defeat of General Beng's Thirty-fifth Group Army north-east of Qiqihar (10-17 August), and the ensuing defeat of General Yang's counterattack with the First Armoured Group Army (20-24 August), had compelled Deng's Twenty-third Group Army to fall back on Baicheng to avoid encirclement. Qiqihar fell to the Russian 17th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Eighth Guards Army) on 26 August, while Malenkov's Fifth Guards Tank Army swept through the relatively open country between Qiqihar and Harbin, intent on seizing the lower Nen river crossings and then smashing into the north-eastern flank of the Chinese Twenty-third Group Army."
- "Qiqihar, the last sizable city in China before reaching Mohe City, China’s northernmost town, briefly enjoyed an unlikely construction boom in 2016 and 2017."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: ᠴᡳᠴᡳᡥᠠᡵ
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈt͡ʃit͡ʃiˌhɑɹ/
- British English: /ˈtʃiːtʃiːˌhɑː/