liukuei
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Liouguei.
Example Sentences
- "During a visit to an orphanage at Liukuei in Kaohsiung, President Chiang Ching-kuo befriended a little girl born without arms. He promised to provide four-year-old Yang En-tien with a pair of artificial limbs."
- "The Meinung, Kaoshu, Shalin, and Liukuei Hakka together comprised the army's "Right Unit," and it alone boasted some 3,200 fighting men."
- "Stop in upper Liukuei for a look at the large Tienhou temple, then roll down into the main part of town across the river. From Liukuei, the route winds through hilly forested areas along a very rural back road."
- "Liukuei, or Six Turtles, is a lovely spot northeast of Kaohsiung. The town occupies a valley, walled in by high mountains, wih a whitewater river rushing by. The scenery is even better than in Santimen. Camping hiking and rafting along the Laonung River are popular activities."
- "In Tainan people used to speak of the Central, South, and North Roads, which split off eastward from Hsinhua, Kuanmiao and Tsochen villages, linking the former Taiwan Prefecture (now Tainan) with the Liukuei region.[…] Along the road there are also many settlements of Aborigines (forced up here by Chinese immigrants) and Hakkas. Liukuei was a border area where the[…]"
- "Taiwanese soldiers march on their way to Liukuei, Kaohsiung county, Taiwan, Thursday, August 13, 2009."
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