ch'üan-chou
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Quanzhou.
Example Sentences
- "The Loyang bridge lies twenty miles outside the east gate of Chʻüan-chou, just on the borders of the district."
- "We know that Italians were trading in the Black Sea ports, and the Arabs in the ports of southern China- in Fu-chien and Kuang-tung. Zayton (Ch'üan-chou in Fu-chien?) is mentioned by Marco Polo as 'the greatest port in the world'."
- "In spite of the Manchu-imposed ban on overseas travel and trade, the Siamese tributary trade must have been profitable enough for a good many Chinese to handle it. Consequently, the early Chinese settlers in Siam were principally merchants from Chʻüan-chou prefecture in southern Fukien and Canton in Kwangtung, who were connected with the Siamese tributary trade."
- "In terms of sending Chinese immigrants and a Chinese administration to Taiwan and its adjacent P’eng-hu, it had to wait for several centuries. There are documentary evidences indicating that by 1171, P’eng-hu (Pescadores) had become a Chinese military outpost, and at least by 1225 it was administratively incorporated into the Chinese Empire—placed under the jurisdiction of Tsin-kiang County of Ch’üan-chou Prefecture, Fukien Province."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 泉州, -