peitou
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Beitou (in Taipei, Taiwan).
Example Sentences
- "Besides, the educational demonstration programs for rural youths in two selected townships, namely, Peitou in Changhua county and Erlun in Yunlin county, being strengthened to develop future farm operators and rural leadership."
- "In 1973, a flower extension center was established at Peitou in Changhua county jointly by the Changhua County Farmers' Association, PDAF and JCRR."
- "During the summer months it was possible to use bamboo rafts on the northernmost channel of the Ch'o-Shui, which ran from the market town of Peitou, and on the southernmost branch, the Huwei, the rafts then proceeding up the coast to Lukang."
- "We thank Dr Ching-Chung Chen for helping to collect calla lily samples from Peitou, Changhua County and Dr Yung-An Lee for critically reviewing the manuscript."
- "The Supreme Administrative Court on Thursday upheld the heritage status of an old movie theater in Changhua County, ending a three-year legal battle between the county’s Cultural Affairs Bureau and the Peitou Township Office, which had sought to build on the site. “Although Peitou (北斗) is a historied township, the town’s former class 3 heritage site, the Tienan Temple, was demolished. If the old theater was also demolished, the culture, history and shared memory of Peitou residents would utterly vanish,” the court said in its ruling."
- "Tienwei lies along the Choshui River basin and is in the form of a long pole. It stretches 9.75 km east and west and measures about 3.38 km across north and south. To the east , it borders Tunglin and Shetou ; on the west , it borders Hsihu and Pitou ; to the south Peitou and to the north Yungching."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 北斗, -, 北投