ch'ü-fu
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Qufu.
Example Sentences
- "There is a portrait of Confucius at Chʻü-fu attributed to Wu and another striking picture representing the struggle of a tortoise with a serpent, kuei she tʻu, which is in the Prefect's official residence at Chʻêng-tu, Sze-chʻuan."
- "He is bury'd in a stately Sepulcher in the same Town where he was born.¹ [...] ¹ The temple-tomb at Chʻü-fu in Shantung ; it is about a mile from the modern city ; this 'stately Sepulcher' was at that time in a delapidated state of repair."
- "Soon after the old man's death, the mother of Confucius took him to live closer to the state capital, Ch'ü-fu- a town which still flourishes as a modern city in southwestern Shantung."
- "It is recorded that the Duke of Chou sent his eldest son, Po Ch'in, to take charge of a large fiefdom in the east in what is now the prefecture of Ch'ü-fu in Shantung."
- "Next in the traditionally accepted sequence of Shang capitals is Yen, tentatively identified with a site out in Shandong amid the Tung Yi, near what would eventually become Ch'ü-fu in the state of Lu."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 曲阜, -