yumen
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.24 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Rich oil has been found in the vicinity of Yumen County north of the Chilien, and a new oil city has been built there."
- "Irrigation systems expanded agriculture, and Yü-men, in the early 1960s, was rapidly growing into a transport and petroleum centre, with refineries, by-product plants, and oil-well machinery plants."
- "After landing at Chiuchuan, we set out immediately up a macadamised highway to the oil municipality of Yumen situated up on the slopes of the Chilien Mountains in what was once known as Yumen County."
- "Yumen is in a high-altitude corner of the poor northwestern province of Gansu. A single oil field is its gushing but fragile economic base."
Etymology
From Mandarin 玉門 /玉门 (Yùmén).
Word Breakdown
- Root: ^玉門