chi-an
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.95 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Ji'an.
Example Sentences
- "Some correspondents who toured the old Red shrines of southern Kiangsi in 1953 testify that Chi-an county alone has an annual rice surplus of over a million shih, because its population is small (150,000 in 1953) and available agricultural land is plentiful."
- "In Chi-chou 吉州⁹³ the price per shih is 25 kuan 850 wên; [one shih is] 120 ko; the freight money to Chien-k’ang is 2 kuan 900 wên per shih."
- "We were in Chi-an County for tea and then, crossing the newly built modern bridge over the Kan River, we arrived at Tzu-p’ing Center, where we stayed in a hotel."
- "A county-level municipality (shih) and the administrative centre of Ching-kang-shan Prefecture (ti-ch'ü), Chi-an is situated on the west bank of the Kan Chiang (river), at the head of navigation for small steamboats from Nan-ch'ang."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 吉安, -