yushu
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.34 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Qinghai, China.
name
A county-level city of the Yushu autonomous region, Qinghai, China.
Example Sentences
- "Going among the masses, members of the meteorological station of Nangchien County in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, gathered 150 folk proverbs on weather changes and edited a meteorological chart of different seasons for agriculture and animal husbandry."
- "Tenzin Sherab (pictured) was the oldest of five siblings from a village in Chumarleb (Chinese: Qumarleb/Qumalai), Yushu (Kyegu) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (the Tibetan area of Kham). According to exile Tibetan sources, his nomad family had been resettled to Chumarleb under the Chinese authorities’ policies of settlement, land confiscation, and fencing of pastoral areas inhabited by Tibetans, dramatically curtailing their livelihoods."
Etymology
From Mandarin 玉樹 /玉树 (Yùshù).
Word Breakdown
- Root: ^玉樹