luichew
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A county-level city of Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China.
noun
a person who traces his/her ancestry to Leizhou or the surrounding area, especially those that ancestrally speak Luichew Min.
Example Sentences
- "At LuiChew, near Lingpo, a rich ex-Mandarin was ordered to at once take 3,000 soldiers to guard a place called Wu Leong Kiang, which he refused to do;[…]"
- "A few members of other speech groups also settled in Kuching. These included Foochows (Hokchius), from the city and surrounding districts in northern Fukien; Henghuas, from the coastal area of Fukien midway between Hokkien and Foochowspeaking areas; Hokchias, closely related to Henghuas and emanating from a small district between Henghua and Foochow; and Luichews, whose home area was the Luichew Peninsula of Kwangtung."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 雷州
Inflected Forms
Lui chew (alternative)
Lui-chew (alternative)
Luichiu (alternative)
Lui Chiu (alternative)
Lui-chiu (alternative)
Luichews (plural)