Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

taibai

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: Tai-bai
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A county of Baoji, Shaanxi, China.

Example Sentences

"During the Cultural Revolution, Taipai County built 44 roads, increasing the length of motorable road by 360 kilometers."
"By 1969, Jia Qianrui and Hong Youdao initiated the relocation of the 22 Base’s central nuclear warhead storage functions to Taibai County, Shaanxi Province. A number of factors may have led to the move. First, Taibai County may have been designated as the ultimate location of China’s nuclear weapons stockpile as early as 1958. Taibai County had been identified as a candidate reserve storage site in the 1958 survey, and this may have been a factor in the establishment of Taibai County in the early-1960s."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 太白 (Tàibái).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 太白

Questions

What does taibai mean?: A county of Baoji, Shaanxi, China.
Where does taibai come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 太白 (Tàibái).

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