huang-pei
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.85 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Hsu was born in Huang-p'i (Huang-pei), an agricultural community not far north of Wuhan"
- "Another interesting discovery was that these Middle Shang vessels, once their true historical importance was realized, turned out to be found not only in the relatively small territory traditionally considered to be the realm of the Shang dynasty but far beyond its borders. The first find of this type occurred in 1958 at Huang-pei-hsien, near Wuhan, Hupei Province. This suggests that Middle Shang culture was spread over an area far larger than previously assumed, a fact that may have been of great importance for the evolution of local bronze cultures during the following Chou period."
- "On October 18, when John was traveling through Huang-pei, some twenty miles north of Hankow, a Hupeh scholar gave him a copy of a letter from Chou, a well-known Hunanese literatus,⁵⁷ to T'an Chi-hsun, the Hunanese governor of Hupeh."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 黃陂, -