chen-chiang
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.20 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Zhenjiang.
Example Sentences
- "There the Chinese had sunk a number of coasters to form a boom covered by shore batteries to prevent the Japanese Navy advancing up to Chen-chiang, Nanking and beyond (which they were eventually to do)."
- "Hibiscus Tower was located in the northwestern corner of the present-day city of Chen-chiang on the south bank of the Yangtze. Near Chen-chiang is the Grand Canal, which then as now ran northward and, during the T’ang, formed a vital link between the Yangtze in the south and the Yellow River in the north."
- "This army recaptured Wu-chʻang, on the right bank of the Yangtze, in 1854, reached Chen-chiang four years later, advanced to Chiu-chiang and threatened Nanking."
Etymology
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