shanyin
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Just as the deep-plowing campaign was unfolding in (Hochiayao) brigade, Shanyin County, "a handful of class enemies jumped up and tried to stir up trouble among the masses and undermine their fighting spirit.""
- "One example is the Youyi mine in Shanyin county, a district of Shanxi under the administration of Shuozhou city.[…] In Shanyin, 20 out of 21 mines have been ordered to shut down and be overhauled, said the mine's managing director, Sun Chuntian.[…] Of Shanyin county's 21 coal mines, the number closed for reconstruction and revamp is: 20"
- "China National Coal Group Corp’s (ChinaCoal) mining operations in north Shaanxi^([sic – meaning Shanxi]) Province were suspended after eight miners died in a colliery flooding at one of the company’s subsidiaries there, state media Xinhua News reported.[…] The workers’ bodies were retrieved on Saturday after they had been trapped underground in the flooded coal mine in Shanyin County a day ago."
- "Ts’ai Yüan-p’ei (also named Ho-ch’ing and Chieh-min) (1876-1940) was born in Shanyin County, Chekiang Province. He passed the second civil service examination in 1889 and the third in 1892 which secured for him the highest degree, han-lin."
- "In 1903 Ts'ai Yüan-p'ei, a native of Shaohsing's Shan-yin county and later to become famous as Chancellor of Peking University, gave a speech to a group of fellow Shaohsing natives living in Shanghai."
Etymology
From Mandarin 山陰 /山阴 (Shānyīn).
Word Breakdown
- Root: 山陰