yen-an
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Yan'an.
Example Sentences
- "Chiang, on the other hand, relied on the new relationship with the Allies (since his was the recognized government of China) in an attempt to improve his position against Yen-an."
- "The main force of the Communist Army broke through the Nationalist cordon and fled by a circuitous route through the wilderness of Southwest China to the northwest province of Shensi where they established a new Soviet-type government at Yen-an."
- "In 1935 the CCP's defeated army retreated to Yen-an in the northern part of Shanhsi Province. This retreat was called the Long March, during which tens of thousands of marchers died."
- "The annihilation campaigns proved failures and the Chinese Communists escaped to begin their epic Long March, a trek of a year's duration (1934-35) to the northwest to Yen-an (Yan'an) north of Sian. En route, at Tsunyi (Zunyi), out of contact with Moscow, they elected Mao Tse-tung as their leader and accepted his Sinified version of Marxism, Mao Tse-tung Thought, as their ideology. The remnants of the party, on arrival in Yen-an, lived in caves, licked their wounds, and set about builidng a party and army structure based on Mao's view that the leading revolutionary class in China was the peasantry."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 延安, -