xishuangbanna
/ˌʃiːʃwɑŋbɑnˈnɑː/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.20 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An autonomous prefecture of Yunnan, China.
Example Sentences
- "After a drive of nearly ten hours, through small villages of thatched houses built on stilts, we stop on the last hairpin bend halfway down the mountain. Below, brilliant green and glistening wet, lies Xishuangbanna, in China’s southernmost valley."
- "In Jinghong, the capital of Xishuangbanna Prefecture (pronounced she-shwang-ban-na), a cavalcade of bronze and stone elephant statues — some ferocious looking, others positively giddy — have been mounted on traffic islands and in front of new Thai-style shopping malls."
- "A herd then consisting of 16 elephants left their home in Xishuangbanna 300 km further south in March last year and eventually settled in a protected habitat in Puer."
Etymology
Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西雙版納 /西双版纳 (Xīshuāngbǎnnà), from Lü ᧑᧒ᦗᧃᦓᦱ (12pannaa) or ᦉᦲᧇᦉᦸᧂᦗᧃᦓᦱ (ṡiibṡoangpannaa) meaning twelve townships of rice-fields.
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 西雙版納, ᧑᧒ᦗᧃᦓᦱ