ch'i-ch'un
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.60 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Qichun.
Example Sentences
- "Hung-jen’s temple is frequently referred to as Huang-mei, after the district in which it was located. It is in present-day Ch’i-ch’un in Hupeh."
- "Li Shih-chen was one of our nation's great doctors and pharmacologists. He was a native of Ch'i-ch'un in Hupeh during the Ming Dynasty."
- "General Wang's army was based at Ch'i-ch'un, in modern Hupeh, just north of the Yangtze, some hundred miles down river from the next and more important point in the Sui deployment, Han-k'ou, where the Han River enters the Yangtze."
- "Tu Ts'ao was appointed Prefect of Ch'i-chou 蘄州 (present-day Ch'i-ch'un 蘄春 in Hu-pei Province), and Tu Mu and Yi accompanied Ts'ao to Ch'i-chou, and then Tu Mu returned to the capital."
- "The Mongols invaded Szechuan in 1236, and Ch’in fled to the east, where he first became a vice-administrator (t’ung-p’an) in Ch’i-chou prefecture (now Ch’i-ch’un in Hupeh province) and then governor of Ho-chou (now Ho-hsien in Anhwei province)."
- "The author of The Compendium of Materia Medica was Li Shih-chen (1518-93), a pioneering scholar in the field of medicinal research in the late Ming. A native of Ch’i-chou in Hukuang (modern Ch’i-ch’un in Hupei), Li Shih-chen achieved the first-degree hsiu-ts'ai in 1531, but gave up obtaining the second-degree chü-jen after three unsuccessful attempts between 1534 and 1540."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 蘄春, -