jo-ch'iang
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.07 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Ruoqiang.
Example Sentences
- "These particulars concerning the Jo-ch'iang are mostly stated in the main account:...The fact of bordering on Cer-cen and its southern neighbour may imply that the later Vāshshahri, between Charkhlik and Cer-cen, was originally a Jo-ch'iang station. The extension of the Jo-ch'iang along the whole hinterland south of the mountains is displayed in old Chinese maps also and in that accompanying Professor Herrmann's Die Seidenstrassen."
- "Sinkiang is linked with Tibet by the Sinkiang-Tibet Highway, which begins at Jo-chʻiang (Charkhlik) in southern Sinkiang."
- "The southern route, seemingly preferred by the Chinese, skirted the northern foothills of the Kunlun Mountains on the southern edge of the Tarim Basin. It, too, began at Tun-huang, with stops at Miran 米蘭 (in present-day Jo-chʻiang 若羌 county), Ni-ya 尼雅 (in present-day Min-feng 民豐 county), Khotan, Yarkand, and continued to Kashgar."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 婼羌, -