shouyang
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Three American missionaries were reported today to have disappeared from Shouyang in East Shansi Province. They have not been seen since the night of Dec. 2, when they left the mission to visit a friend."
- "The article looked at the situation in Shouyang county, adjacent to Hsiyang county, Shansi, home of Tachai. Shouyang, according to Red Flag, had failed to benefit from proximity to China's agricultural pace-setter, for class enemies[…]"
- "After he had passed the imperial examination in Peking, he acquired the title of jinshi* and was appointed a Hanlin (imperial college) academician by the Qing court. He was Prefect of Shouyang County in Shanxi Province."
- "Using examples from Shouyang county in Shanxi province, this paper discusses the concepts of locality in both official and local sources, especially in the context of financing local cults."
Etymology
From Mandarin 壽陽 /寿阳.
Word Breakdown
- Root: 壽陽