wu-ch'ia
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.33 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Wuqia (“Ulugqat”).
Example Sentences
- "The most important find, from Wu-chʻia (Sinkiang) in the Pamir region, consisted of thirteen gold bars and 947 silver coins, including 567 issues of Chosroes II and 281 of the Arab governors."
- "A large hoard was found in the late 1950s in modern Wu-chʻia 烏恰 county (Ulugqat), which is west of Kashgar. It was in an uninhabited area on a path that passes through the Pamir Mountains from the Farghānah Valley to Kashgar. The hoard evidently belonged to a merchant who was forced to hide it in an emergency. It has never been properly studied and I was unable to gain access to it at the Sinkiang Museum. The archaeologist who wrote the published description of the find was not a trained numismatist. He reported that the hoard was made up of silver coins and gold bars, and that there were 947 silver Sasanian and Arab-Sasanian coins that weighed a total of 3,800 grams. Many of the coins appear to have been countermarked. Also found were thirteen crudely manufactured gold bars with a total weight of 1,330 grams; Li Yü-chʻun 李遇春, "Hsin-chiang Wu-chʻia hsien fa-hsien chin-ťʻiao ho ta-pʻi Po-ssu yin-pi" 新疆烏恰縣發現金條和大批波斯銀幣, KK 9 (1959), pp. 482-83."
Etymology
From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 烏恰 /乌恰 (Wūqià), Wade-Giles romanization: Wu¹-chʻia⁴.
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 烏恰