wu-hsüeh
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Wuxue.
Example Sentences
- "Four days later a still more violent and unexpected attack was made at Wu Hsüeh, a city twenty-five miles above Chiu Chiang, on the Yangtze."
- "At Tan-yang Hsien, in the province of Kiang-su, and at Wu-hsüeh, in the province of Hu-peh, similar outrages have been committed on missionary establishments there, and it is now necessary that the miscreants should be arrested and unrelenting measures taken in good time to provide against further outrages of this kind."
- "On May 14 the Fourth Field Army led by Lin Piao, Lo Jung-huan and other comrades forced the Yangtse on a front of more than one hundred kilometres in the Tuanfeng-Wuhsueh sector east of Wuhan."
- "But on June 5 after rioters at Wu-hsüeh killed two British subjects the riots became the foremost concern of British policy in China."
- "We can surmise that Liu K’un-i’s suppression of the Ko-lao hui finally forced the agitators back into Hupeh, where they helped to instigate the riot at Wu-hsueh on June 5; the riot got out of hand (two foreigners were killed) and the agitators were arrested at Wuchang on June 12."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 武穴, -