chungli
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Zhongli.
Example Sentences
- "Preliminary to the formal opening of the Christian College later in the year, classes have been established with an enrollment of over 100 students. The college is located in a former army camp in Chungli, about 25 miles from Taipei."
- "Westinghouse Corp., has established a fully-owned subsidiary, Westinghouse Taiwan Corp. (WTC), in Chungli, about 40 kilometers southwest of Taipei, and plans to start manufacturing medium-and high voltage power circuit breakers early next year, according to a company spokesman."
- "To get to Shihmen Reservoir, first take a bus or train to Chungli (zhōnglì), which is 36 km south-west of Taipei."
- "In one period of particularly fierce bombing, we escaped to my wife’s aunt’s house in the Chungli countryside, where we lived in a room in the rear courtyard for a while. Afterwards, I still had to return as usual to work in Taipei. Not long after this, Chungli also was bombed severely, so my wife had to flee to my old home in Tungshih, near Hsinchu."
- "“I’m here to resist China,” said Lin Ting-fung, a 52-year-old demonstrator from Chungli city, just south of the capital. “I don’t know how to express myself clearly, but I just don’t feel comfortable when Chen Yunlin is here.”"
- "On the day of my inauguration, the director of the Nationalist Party county office ordered the Chungli mayor to stop trash collection. Because I could not command the Chungli sanitation department directly—it is administered at the local level—piles of garbage began to fester on the streets."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 中壢//, -