erligang
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
a Bronze Age urban civilization and archaeological culture in China
Example Sentences
- "Shang bronzes predating the thirteenth century BC were first found at Erligang, in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province. The finds at Erligang include the site of an early Shang city wall and, around it, the remains of workshops that made pottery, bone implements and bronzes."
- "In the Huai River valley, which as we saw has yielded good evidence of Shang occupation in the Erh-li-kang phase, there have been a number of late Shang sites that have been reported on, but the only site of any notable scale is the residential-plus-burial site at Ch'iu-wan 丘灣, north of Hsü-chou in northwestern Kiangsu, discovered in 1959 and excavated in 1959, 1960, and 1965."
- "The third change appeared during the Erligang period (early and middle Shang dynasty), when wheat (Triticum aestivum) was adopted into the local farming system."
- "Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province, sits in the heartland of China: the central valley around the Yellow River that birthed ancient civilizations such as Erligang over 3,500 years ago. But today, Henan is one of the poorer provinces of eastern China, and Henanese are often the targets of discrimination."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 二里崗//二里岗
Inflected Forms
Erh-li-kang (alternative)