tongren
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.10 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A county-level city of Huangnan, Qinghai, China.
name
A prefecture-level city of Guizhou, China.
Example Sentences
- "The protests this week have mostly unfolded in Tibetan towns in Qinghai Province, a vast, sparsely populated region that is historically important as a center of Tibetan culture. They began at a high school on Tuesday in the town of Tongren, known as Rebkong in Tibetan, and then widened.[…] The principal of a primary school in Huangzhong County, northwest of Tongren, confirmed by telephone that peaceful protests had taken place."
- "Part of the bridge collapsed across a highway linking Fenghuang County to an airport in the Tongren region of neighboring Guizhou Province, according to a notice posted on the local government Web site on Tuesday."
Etymology
From Mandarin 同仁 (Tóngrén).
Word Breakdown
- Root: ^同仁, 銅仁