shaoyang
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A prefecture-level city of Hunan, China.
Example Sentences
- "Top, left, weighing shed of a surface coal mine in Shaoyang, southwestern Hunan.[...]The Executive Yuan is understood to be planting the establishment of three “national industrial defence lines,” namely, a northwestern line with headquarters in Paochi, a southwestern line with headquarters in Shaoyang, and a southeastern line in Kiangchow."
- "Mr. Tan’s journey from migrant worker to labor organizer began in a small farming community near the city of Shaoyang, in central China’s Hunan Province, where Mao Zedong was born."
- "The four high school graduates were born in a small city of Shaoyang in central China’s Hunan province in 2003, but were transferred to a major regional hospital almost immediately because of their unstable vital signs, reported the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald."
Etymology
From Mandarin 邵陽 /邵阳 (Shàoyáng).
Word Breakdown
- Root: 邵陽