fu-ch'ing
/ˌfuːˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.45 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Fuqing.
Example Sentences
- "So he bade good-by to Mr. Chiang, and set off for Fokien, his patron providing him with clothes and shoes, and the people of the place making up a subscription for him. On the road he met two traders in cotton cloth who were going to Fu-chʻing, and he joined their party; but they had not travelled many stages before these men found out that he had money, and taking him to a lonely spot, bound him hand and foot and made off with all he had."
- "The niche-figures and reliefs of the Jui-yun Pagoda at Fu-ch'ing date from the end of the Ming dynasty, as the tower was constructed between 1607 and 1615;⁴¹ these sculptures are amongst the best in the province. The bas-reliefs of Fu-ch'ing, some of which are full of expression (pl. 64a, b), point to a later period of Chinese plastic art, that of the porcelain statuettes produced at Tê-hua 德化 near Ch'uan-chou, and of the wood carvings of Fu-chou, which have flourished from the Ming era up to the present day."
- "Yeh was born in 1562, the son of a minor scholar-official from Fu-chʻing, a coastal county within the prefecture of Foochow.¹³"
- "In most coastal prefectures, the ratio of fishermen was higher: 7 percent of the population in Ch'uan-chou and in Hsing-hua; 5 percent in Foochow (a large part of which was in Fu-ch'ing), but (for reasons that are not clear) not so in Fu-ning or Chang-chou prefectures."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 福清, -