ch'ang-chou
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.84 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Changzhou.
Example Sentences
- "The President of the Imperial Academy recommended him for the title of Censor (諫官), but Wang An-shih refused to receive it, giving as a reason that his grandmother was sick and old, and he wanted to serve her. But at once he was made Department Magistrate (知州) of Chʻang-chou."
- "Liang Ch’ang is a hill in Chin-t’an near the borders of Kü-jung about fifty miles west of Ch’ang-chou in Kiangsu Province."
- "Wu Kʻuan, for example, who won the highest honors in the metropolitan and palace examination of 1472 and became president of the Board of Rites, was from an artisan family of Ch’ang-chou County, part of Su-chou in southern Kiangsu."
- "The Chung Wang claimed that the imperialists lost 10,000 men at Tan-yang, and, while such numbers were invariably exaggerated by both sides during the rebellion, the victory did open the way to the town of Ch'ang-chou, the first vital position on the line to Soochow."
- "Further, he suggested strategies and gave counsel to his superiors at Soochow and Ch'ang-chou. (The Governor-General resided temporarily in Ch'ang-chou after the Taiping capture of Nanking in 1853.)"
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