taku
/tˈɑkˌu/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.27 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A river in Alaska and British Columbia.
Example Sentences
- "The success with which Yeh had for years disregarded the Nanking Treaty in.the South, naturally encouraged the Mandarins in the North to signalize their disregard of the Tientsin Treaty by their action at Taku (June 25, 1859) which permanently injured British prestige in China."
- "At Tangku and Taku, following withdrawal of the Chinese troops, the threat to the main line of Japanese military communications had been removed. Japanese patrols began to move freely in Tientsin."
- "Tientsin had no consequential defense works, but there were about 1,100 sailors and marines of various nationalities in the settlement who, during the few days previous, had been sent up from war-vessels in the Port at Taku, sixty miles away."
- "As part of the British offensive in the north of China, they seized the strategically important Taku Forts at the mouth of the Peiho River."
Etymology
From Tlingit Tʼaaḵu.
Word Breakdown
- Root: Tʼaaḵu, -