chiao-tso
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.99 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Jiaozuo.
Example Sentences
- "Another northern site where large numbers of shards have been found but at present no definite evidence of kilns, is Chiao-tso in Northern Honan, visited by Mr. Orvar Karlbeck in 1934 and in 1943 by Mr. Koyama, who prefers to call it Wu-hsiao, the name of the Department in which it lies."
- "The story describes a model coal miner in Chiao-tso, Honan."
- "Near the T'ai-hang Mountains of Honan, T'ang-yang-yu, now the headquarters of a commune brigade in the municipality of Chiao-tso in Hsiu-wu County, was once the site of a thriving pottery centre in the Northern Sung Dynasty.[…]Today in the rugged country out of Chiao-tso there are still some scattered kilns near the old pottery town of T’ang-yang-yu making pots for the farmers in the district."
- "Sally was born in Scotland and spent the first 10 years of her childhood in the interior of North China in the town of Chiao Tso. She attended a mission school in China, private school in London and was a 1934 graduate of Woodbury High."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 焦作, -