tsienkiang
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Owing to its numerous rapids the Red River is not navigable much beyond Tsienkiang, 100 miles from Sunchow, but its tributary the Liu River coming from the north forms a means of communication with Kweichow."
- "In Central China the Japanese hold Tsienkiang in Central Hupeh, south of the Han River."
- "When this became too heavy a load for the seminary teacher, Oscar Anderson came with his family in the fall of 1932¹⁷⁵ to join in evangelism and relief work in Kingchow, Tsienkiang, and the outstations.[…] In the fall of 1934 Oscar Anderson and Pastor Tang made visits to Tsienkiang, a district between Kingchow and Hankow, and found there Christians who were still firm in their faith after visitations by the communists, and more people now who wanted to become Christian."
Etymology
From the Postal Romanization of Nanking court dialect Mandarin 潛江 /潜江 (Qiánjiāng), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 潛江
Usage
Inflected Forms
Tsienkiáng (alternative)