an-lu
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.64 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Anlu.
Example Sentences
- "In 303 the harvest had been abundant in the region of Chiang-hsia 江夏 (the modern An-lu 安陸 in Hupei), and, as a result, thousands of vagebonds^([sic – meaning vagabonds]) had flocked there together."
- "He had visited Tung Ting Lake, Hsiang Yang, Nanking, Yangchow and other places, and came to An-lu ostensibly to visit Yun Meng which Szema Hsiang-ju wrote about in Tse Hsu Fu. In An-lu, he found himself married.[...]After a few years in An-lu, Li Po was apparently bored with the life he was leading and set out once again to visit Lo-yang."
- "About 726 he married the grand-daughter of Hsü Yü-shih, who had been Chief Minister in 657, and lived for some years at the family residence of the Hsüs in An-lu, north of Hankow."
- "Some idea of the activities of an urban landlord may be had from the following two passages, both written by natives of An-lu in Hupeh."
- "In the fourth year of the reign of the Emperor Hsiao Wu [r. 372-396] of the Chin Dynasty [265-420], Hsüeh Tao-hsün of An-lu County in the Chiang-hsia Commandery [in Hupeh Province] was twenty-two."
Etymology
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