spring festival
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.51 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "They plan to visit Shanghai during Spring Festival."
- "Comrade Hou Zongbin came to the environmental sanitation transfer station on (Ninggong) Road, Erqi [translating 二七 (Èrqī)] District, and warmly clasped hands with two workers (Chu Yuwen) and (Zhao Dongfang), voicing his thanks to more than 2,400 environmental sanitation workers throughout the city, including these two, who had been working so hard that the people in the provincial capital could enjoy a happy, civilized, and peaceful Spring Festival, and wishing them good health and family happiness."
- "Although the Hui in the northwest do not celebrate the Han holidays of Zhongqiu, Qingming, or even Chun Jie (Spring Festival), the Hui in most of China's cities gladly participate."
- "Our school's Spring Festival is next week."
Etymology
The Chinese New Year sense is a calque of Chinese 春節 /春节 (Chūnjié), the usual modern name for the holiday. By surface analysis, and when not referring to the Chinese holiday, a proprialization of spring + festival.