te-ch'ing
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.51 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The earliest form of celadon, the Yüeh ware, was produced in the southeast coastal provinces of Che-chiang and Fu-chien around the time of Christ.[…]A number of kiln sites have been found — Chiu-yen and Te-ch'ing in Che-chiang, and Nan-tai in Fu-chien."
- "Tsan-ning was surnamed Kao. His family was originally from the P'o Hai district of present-day Hopei, but at the end of the Sui dynasty (618) they moved to the Te-ch'ing district of Wu-hsing prefecture, in present-day Chekiang."
- "The silk district of Chekiang Province, “one vast rich and fertile mulberry garden,” is a virtually flat floodplain, laced with creeks and canals and studded with residual hills, which appear to a visitor “as if they had been thrown out as guards between the vast plain, which extends eastward to the sea, and the mountains of the west.”[…]In the midst of this thoroughly commercialized district lay the county seat of Te-ch'ing, some twenty miles north of historic Hangchow."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 德清, -