chao-t'ung
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.51 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Zhaotong.
Example Sentences
- "Although Kuei-chow drew seven piculs of prepared tobacco, and Chao-t’ung, the northern prefecture of Yün-nan, took four pieces of T cloths and 14½ piculs of tobacco from Mêng-tzŭ, I see no reason to alter what I wrote eight years ago in the concluding paragraph of Chapter XII."
- "There are also indications that Buddhism appeared in south China; a stone sculpture thought to have served as a pedestal for Buddhist figures and bearing a date equivalent to A.D. 83 was discovered at Chao-t’ung in Yunnan in 1937."
- "Farther north, Sister Moira Riehl headed a group of four Sisters who worked in the Catholic hospital of Chao-t'ung run by the Yugoslavian School Sisters of St. Francis."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 昭通, -