tzu-chung
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.87 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Zizhong.
Example Sentences
- "There are, of course, a number of counties where the descendants of pre-Ch'ing natives still constitute a significant portion of the local population. Tzu-chung county, midway between Ch'eng-tu and Chungking testifies: Tsu-chung does not have any native clans that can be traced back more than six hundred years. [Among the old clans] six- or seven- tenths came from Hupei during the early Ming period."
- "In 1927 and 1928, the city was the headquarters of a garrison area that stretched from Tzu-chung county to the west through the rich sugar-producing region around Nei-chiang, eastward to Nan-ch'uan near the Kweichow border."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 資中, -