ko-chiu
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.85 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Gejiu.
Example Sentences
- "He released Min Li-sung when he publicly “admitted his errors,” but he continued to hold the son, who refused to repent.¹¹ He thus warned landowners in the Ko-chiu area not to deal with the French."
- "The Ko-chiu area in Yunnan is still the backbone of the Chinese tin industry, as it supplies about two-thirds of China's total output."
- "According to French Consul François, the governor-general and other leading officials personally attended the drill practices close to Yunnanfu. Five prefectures succeeded in organizing t’uan-lien, which paraded and drilled before dawn and before dusk in the villages.¹⁸ In the winter of 1903-4 an occasion arose to test the experiment. A revolt, antiforeign and antiofficial in inspiration, started among the perennially restive young tin miners in the Ko-chiu mining region."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 箇舊, -