han-tan
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.67 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Handan.
Example Sentences
- "The good people of Han-tan were in the habit, every New Year's day, of presenting their Governor, Chien Tzü, with a number of live pigeons."
- "Now we know from the biography that Tzŭ-chʻu's wife had formerly been an ordinary courtesan (chi 姬) of Han-tan, who had been selected by Lü Pu-wei to be his concubine because she "was extremely beautiful and an excellent dancer.""
- "Lu Pu-wei was a prosperous businessman in the large city of Han-tan in Chao, where he met a prince of Ch’in who was being kept as hostage in the capital."
- "Ch'in Shih-huang-ti, the son of King Chuang-hsiang, was born in about 258 bc in Han-tan, the capital of the state of Chao."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 邯鄲, -