ch'in-chou
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.94 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative spelling of Qinzhou (in Gansu, China).
Example Sentences
- "A broken stone tablet found in Cave 127 records that, some time between 503 and 516, the Loyang monk Fa-sheng came and commissioned the carving out of a Buddha niche. According to an inscription in Cave 166, a Buddha image was commissioned by the military commander and prefect of Ch'in-chou (modern T'ian-shui) at about the same time."
- "Once more he was beginning to talk of hermitage, and he took his family first to Ch’in-chou (modern T’ien-shui, Kansu) more than three hundred miles west of Hua-chou."
- "Backed by the thirteen Che-lung tribes, another group associated with Liang-chou, P'an-lo-chih's elevation to the leadership of Liu-ku probably resulted from the support of the Sung authorities in Ch'in-chou (modern T'ien-shui, Kansu), who may well have viewed him as a stronger deterrent to Li Chi-ch'ien than his predecessor had been."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 秦州, -