gêrzê
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A county of Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
name
A town in Gêrzê County, Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Example Sentences
- "Also in Totalashan of Rutog and the area to the north of Gêrzê of Tibet there appear corals with dissepiment like Polythecalis, Chusenophyllum and Wentzellophyllum."
- "Gerzê is really the end of the world. It is situated in the middle of an empty desert, and I can't imagine why anyone ever stopped to build a town here. Except for a few nondescript Chinese concrete buildings, all the walls and houses are made from mud bricks and everything— the houses, the road, even the surrounding countryside—is the same light brown color. Beyond the town, emptiness stretches to the horizon."
- "Ge Yi was from Chabug Village in Gêrzê County. Before he became Party branch secretary of Nuxtiu Village, his family had more than 400 sheep and 100 yak, making them one of the wealthy families in the village."
- "The Upper Carboniferous Zhanjin Formation has attracted much attention from geoscientists for containing glacial–marine diamictite and cold‐water fauna typified by the bivalve Eurydesma. The presence of this Formation has provided important evidence for determining the northern border of Gondwana. Previous researchers have classified those strata north of Niangrong Co in the Gêrzê region as part of the Zhanjin Formation based on the presence of glacial–marine diamictite, although the absence of biological fossil evidence has defied clear age determination."
Etymology
From Tibetan སྒེར་རྩེ་ (sger rtse).
Word Breakdown
- Root: སྒེར་རྩེ་
Inflected Forms
Gerze (alternative)
Gertse (alternative)
Synonyms
Gaize
Kai-tse