wenshan
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A Zhuang and Miao autonomous prefecture in Yunnan, China.
name
A county-level city of Wenshan, Yunnan, China.
Example Sentences
- "The First Party Congress of Wenshan Chuang-Miao Autonomous District was held in Wenshan from 14 to 16 June. It was attended by 840 party representatives from all fronts in the district. On behalf of the party core group of the Wenshan Chuang-Miao Autonomous District Revolutionary Committee, a responsible person of the party core group delivered a work report entitled "Hold High the Banner of Unity for Victory of the Ninth Party Congress and Advance Boldly Along Chairman Mao's Revolutionary Line.""
- "Most of the chronically poor counties in Yunnan Province in the late 1970s tended to specialize in nongrain crops in the late 1950s. That was particularly true of ten counties, almost half the provincial total of chronically poor counties, located in two contiguous prefectures, Wenshan and Hungho, in tropical southeastern Yunnan."
- "The top anti-corruption watchdog in Southwest China’s Yunnan province said on Friday the governor of the burgeoning aluminium hub of Wenshan had been placed under investigation. Zhang Xiulan, who has been governor of Wenshan prefecture since March 2015, is suspected of “grave violations of discipline and the law,” the Yunnan Province Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a statement, without elaborating."
- "In April of 1944, an American colonel conferred with Nationalist Chinese General Kwan Lin-jen in Wenshan, southern Yunnan Province, on the defense of that region against the Japanese in Indochina. The colonel was helping the general train his troops."
- "“The suspect turned to a local police station for help, but was too furious to wait for an investigation,” Xinhua news agency said, citing police in Yunnan Province in southwestern China.[…] He killed one passer-by and injured another nine, none critically, on Monday morning at the Shuangqiao Garden Plaza in Wenshan county, before being seized by police."
- "Fact: An outbreak of tea inchworm resulted in tremendous loss to the tea farmers in Wenshan area near Taipei. Entomologists were called upon to reduce the population, but before any action was taken, the worms died in one month."
Etymology
From Mandarin 文山 (Wénshān).
Word Breakdown
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Inflected Forms
Wen-shan (alternative)
Wunshan (alternative)