xianyang
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.49 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A prefecture-level city of Shaanxi, China.
Example Sentences
- "The empire was divided into thirty-six ‘commanderies’. Each of these was controlled by a military and a civil governor, with an imperial inspector charged with overseeing them and reporting back to the Ch’in capital at Hsienyang."
- "Far less known, but almost as impressive, was Meng T’ien’s construction of a superhighway connecting the Chinese capital of Hsienyang (just across the Wei River from Ch’ang-an) with the newer sections of the Great Wall in Inner Mongolia."
- "Weeks after her release, a court would seize her two-bedroom apartment in Xianyang in Shaanxi Province and her Toyota Camry because she was insolvent, and put her on a national blacklist. She can no longer book a hotel room or a plane ticket, or take out a loan."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 咸陽