wenchang
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A county-level city of Hainan, China.
Example Sentences
- "Messrs. David and Oustalet state that its visits Southern China in the summer season; and Swinhoe procured it at Swatow, and says that it is supposed to breed in the Wenchang district, N.E. Hainan."
- "Entire administrative districts were ordered to adopt the same planting density, irrespective of the varying conditions within that district. Mencheong county authority in Kwangtung sent cadres to direct a collective to adopt a density known by the local peasants to be technically disastrous ( NFJP , June 26, 1956)."
- "The highlight of the article is that the mass education measures used at Wenchang of Hainan Island were “teaching, criticism, debate, struggle, arrest and execution.” (Begin translation) When this anti-revolutionary revisionist element Lin Li-ming returned to Hainan, he made his native place Wenchang the “key point county” of his work and designated the Chengchiao (Township Outskirts) Commune as the focus of that key point."
- "Charlie Soong (1866-1918), also called Charles Jones Soon, was born Han Chiao-shun and was reared until he was nine in Wen-ch’ang, a port on the eastern coast of the island of Hainan."
- "On Tuesday, President Xi Jinping visited the launch site in Wenchang on the southern island of Hainan from which the Tianhe module was fired into orbit."
Etymology
From Mandarin 文昌 (Wénchāng).
Word Breakdown
- Root: 文昌
Inflected Forms
Wen-ch'ang (alternative)
Phrases
Synonyms
Mencheong