chieh-yang
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.12 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Jieyang.
Example Sentences
- "A co-operative in the southern part of Chekiang Province claimed a 25 per cent increase of yield of rice per mow in 1953, and another in Chieh-yang county of Kwangtung Province reported an increase of 33 per cent per mow of rice in the same year, as compared with 1952 before the co-operatives came into existence in either locality."
- "As the Yeh-Ho armies approached Swatow, peasants briefly captured two other county seats, Ch’ao-yang and Chieh-yang, but there was very little coordination between the local forces and the oncoming troops."
- "Weng was from Chieh-yang county in Kwangtung province, and passed the chin-shih examination in 1526, after which he served for a time as provincial magistrate in Wu-chou in Kwangsi. But his rise to high office began only at the time of the Vietnam campaign in the years 1537-40."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
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