Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wancheng

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.05 in modern English

Syllables: wancheng
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A district of Nanyang, Henan, China.

Example Sentences

"Mr. Li Yansen, 67, is a retired engineer from Bayi Manufacturing in Nanyang City. During the morning of March 5, 2004, five police officers from Wancheng District came to his home and illegally searched it without showing a warrant or identification."
"In Henan province, in the Wancheng District of Nanyang City, another house church was raided. All occupants of the church were arrested except for one elderly woman. Two foreign pastors, one from the United States and the other from Russia, both present at the time of the raid, were arrested along with their translator. Ma Hanzhong, a member of the house church and arrested with the others was beaten. The location of the two foreign pastors are unknown at this time (p.4)."

Etymology

From Mandarin 宛城 (Wǎnchéng).

Word Breakdown

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Questions

What does wancheng mean?: A district of Nanyang, Henan, China.
Where does wancheng come from?: From Mandarin 宛城 (Wǎnchéng).

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