chin-sha-chiang
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.97 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Example Sentences
- "It is much more likely that the Chin-sha-chiang (reserving this name for the southward-flowing upper portion of the Yangtze) did actually continue southwards past Likiang, being subsequently beheaded by the upper course of the eastward-flowing portion cutting back westwards; the southern portion of the Chin-sha-chiang, being thus isolated from its source, ultimately disappearing."
- "In a coracle of this form, Kingdon Ward (1913, 129) travelled 15 miles downstream from Batang on the Chin-sha-chiang, a tributary of the Yangtze; its length was barely 6 feet, the breadth 3 feet and the depth 5 feet."
- "The great Ña(g)-chu, or Ya-lung river, which with its tributaries issues from the southern slopes of the Bayankara range and ultimately joins the Hbri-chu, now Chin-sha-chiang, on its left bank, has perhaps a more precipitous upper course."
- "In this connection, Wu Chin-ting’s investigations during 1938-40 in Ta-li Hsien, in the Lake Erh and Tien-ts’ang Mountain area of western Yunnan a little way below the Chin-sha-chiang, are highly important."
Etymology
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