p'an-yü
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.44 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Panyu.
Example Sentences
- "An extended biography of Ch'ü is not called for here, as enough is given in the record. Briefly, he was born about 1629 in the district of P'an-yü, Kuangtung Province, and was a young student when the forces of the Ming collapsed and the Manchu braves and their Chinese and Mongol allies overran the country, occupying Peking in 1644 and Canton in 1650."
- "The gentry of the thirteen rural areas of P'an-yü (Kwangtung) contributed funds and in 1777 built a kung-so (public meeting hall) in which a copy of the Sacred Edict was "reverentially kept" and where villagers old and young gathered to listen to the sermons."
- "Looking away from the city, the British troops gazed northwards into the famous White Cloud Mountains (Pai-yün-shan), which divided Nanhai and P’an-yü counties."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 番禺, -