quanzhou
/ˈt͡ʃwɑnˈt͡soʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.87 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Example Sentences
- "Between 1946 and 1948 in the ruins of the foundations of Quanzhou’s South Gate Tower and southern wall we excavated more that twenty large white gravestones, inscribed in Arabic on both sides. They obviously had been taken from a demolished Islamic mosque. The area overlooked in the Jin River and was known as South Quanzhou, or the “Foreign District.” It was here that merchants from overseas and their families had lived during Song and Yuan."
- "Located on the Jin River, Quanzhou was China’s principal port during the Song and Yuan dynasties."
- "He said that four years ago, the island began receiving water from the Jin River, in Quanzhou, China, and now 70-80% of Kinmen's water comes from China."
Etymology
c. late 20th c., from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 泉州 (Quánzhōu, literally “spring prefecture”).
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 泉州, 全州