tsamkong
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In August Fathers Robert LeBas and Bernard Blusson of France were expelled to French Indo-China, along with six Sisters from Tsamkong, Kwangtung."
- "For example, Canton’s Southern Daily frequently carried articles emphasizing the importance of natural science, and associating it with atheism, in the mid- 1950s.⁶ Even the West Kwangtung Peasants' Report (Yüeh-hsi Nung-min Pao) had writers in Tsamkong to dwell on this theme: “This newspaper has told the peasants that ‘gods and spirits’ [shen kuei] and ‘fate’ [t‘ien ming] are all fake. Anybody who is sick must call a doctor. If there is a natural disaster, we must rely on our own strength, organize ourselves under the leadership of the Party, and walk the road of mutual aid and cooperation."⁷"
- "West lay China, Yan's country. "Which part are you from?" I asked him, me and him on deck one morning patching our clothes, looking towards the coast. "Are we near your home, Yan?" He shook his head. "Far south of here," he replied, "Tsamkong." His black hair was growing long and parted above his brow in two thick waves."
Etymology
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