ch'u-chou
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.93 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Chuzhou.
Example Sentences
- "In the eighth month of the year, Ou-yang was exiled to Ch'u-chou prefecture in eastern-central Anhui, where he was to remain until early in 1048 when he became Prefect of Yang-chou."
- "Han Lin-erh fled into the camp of his nominal subordinate Chu Yüan-chang, under whose patronage he retained his imperial pretensions at Ch'u-chou, an important city in east central Anhwei, until his death in 1366."
- "The Ch’u-chou exile began what was to be a long nine-year absence from the Court. Ch’u-chou was not as distant as Yi-ling had been, but it was even more isolated. Located some forty miles northwest of Nanking and the Yangtze, it was not, as Ou-yang Hsiu said, a place travelers passed through."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 滁州, -