erh-li-t'ou
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.27 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Erlitou.
Example Sentences
- "Of the other Honan sites reported since 1954 which have been assigned to the Erh-li-t'ou culture, none are as rich as Erh-li-t'ou itself."
- "The Shang civilization itself arose in a relatively small area of western Honan province. At Erh-li-t’ou and Cheng-chou excavations have documented the transition from the Lung-shan to the earliest stage of the Shang. Erh-li-t’ou has yielded evidence of bronze metallurgy, a highly stratified society, craft specialization and the presence of large structures with pounded earth (hang-t’u) foundations."
- "Until recently, the Hsia Dynasty was considered a purely mythic expression of Chinese prehistory, but archaeological finds in the 1970s established its reality. According to The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China,¹ its capital was at Erh-li-t'ou in Honan Province."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 二里頭, -