zizhong
/ˌ(d)zɪˈd͡ʒɒŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
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."
- "Born in Zizhong County of Sichuan Province, Fu is one of the promising new women poets appearing on the literary scene in recent years."
- "For example, Yucheng in nearby Shanxi Province has a serious H.I.V. epidemic related to blood selling, the government press has reported. More surprising, so does Zizhong in Sichuan Province, more than 500 miles from Henan."
- "The unidentified youngster tossed the lit firecrackers into a sewer on a lawn in Zizhong county in Sichuan, southwestern China, on January 30, then ran away."
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 資中 /资中 (Zīzhōng, literally “middle reaches of the Tuo River in Zi Prefecture (Sichuan)”).
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 資中