lishui
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A prefecture-level city of Zhejiang, China.
Example Sentences
- "In a United Press despatch appearing in the Toronto papers about the middle of February it was stated that the Japanese had bombed an airdrome in Lishui, Chekiang, the headquarters of many Canadian Catholic missionaries. Apart from that despatch, no intimation has come to us at the seminary that trouble has developed in Lishui."
- "The night of April 18, 1942, was dark and drizzly. The Canadian fathers in Lishui, Chekiang, rose from their meal and turned on their radio: through the static from London came word that Tokyo announced enemy planes had bombed Japan."
- "Ji Wenhua was sentenced to death on Monday by Lishui intermediate court in Zhejiang for illegally raising 5.5 billion yuan ($867 million) between 2003 and 2008, the South China Morning Post reported. He was also separately accused of fraud worth some 1.47 billion yuan ($231.6 million)."
Etymology
From Mandarin 麗水 /丽水.
Word Breakdown
- Root: 麗水