k'un-shan

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.22 in modern English

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"He was a native of Hua-t’ing, Kiangsu Province, and was director of education at K’un-shan, but retired on account of his dislike of public life."
"Wei Liang-fu lived in K’un-shan near Shanghai, and for ten years studied the old operas and their music."
"Then, in 1936, the Firemen's Association of K’un-shan sponsored a benefit concert. This was a big deal because K’un-shan was the place where k’un-ch’ü originated six hundred years ago."

From Mandarin 崑山 /昆山 (Kūnshān), Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻun¹-shan¹.

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