jingchuan
/d͡ʒɪŋˈt͡ʃwɑn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "To the east of the ruins are groups of Sariputra stone reliquaries whose shape and decoration are similar to those found in Jingchuan county, Gansu province."
- "As huangdi, she ordered every prefecture in the land to build a Dayun Temple, each of which would be provided with a copy of the all-important Dayun Sutra. The reliquary in this exhibition is from the Dayun Temple in Jingzhou prefecture (now Jingchuan County, Gansu)."
- "Archaeologists discovered a box in Jingchuan County, China, which, according to its inscription, contained the cremated remains of the Buddha.[…] The archaeological team, led by Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology research fellow Hong Wu, is still determining whether the statues were also buried at that time along with the box."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 涇川