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xiangtan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.02 in modern English

Syllables
Xiang-tan
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A prefecture-level city of Hunan, China, on the lower Xiang River.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 湘潭 (Xiāngtán, literally “[place of the] Xiang River eddy”).

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Hsiangtan (alternative) Hsiang-t'an (alternative) Siangtan (alternative)

Questions

What does xiangtan mean?
A prefecture-level city of Hunan, China, on the lower Xiang River.
Where does xiangtan come from?
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 湘潭 (Xiāngtán, literally “[place of the] Xiang River eddy”).

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