chien-shih
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.54 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Jianshi.
Example Sentences
- "Tea certificates were issued by the magistrates of the following localities: Ch'ien-shan and sixteen other hsien in Anhui; Shan-hua and sixteen other hsien in Hunan. In Hupeh, certificates were issued by the magistrate of Chien-shih to tea merchants. In Hsien-ning and six other chou and hsien, tea planters also received certificates to sell tea (Hu-pu tse-li, 32:4-5)."
- "The head of an agricultural producers’ cooperative in Chien-shih county of Hupei Province lectured his peasant wife: “To gain emancipation, women must do production work just like men.”"
- "Most interesting of all is the association of five teeth of G. blacki with four molars of a smaller hominid primate (see below) in Dragon Bone cave, Chien-shih district, western Hupei Province (Hsu et al., 1974; "Gao dian," 1975)."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 建始, -