chihli
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The Yalu is mainly useful in floating down immense rafts of wood, which find their way from the town of Antung, at the mouth of the river, to the port of Newchwang, and to Chefoo and Tientsin for the provinces of Shantung and Chihli."
- "TS‘I: principality, separated by the Yellow River from Tsin and Yen; it lay in North Shan Tung, and in the coast part of Chih Li."
- "Mr. Lattimore was born in Paotingfu, China, where his American parents served on the faculty of the Chihli provincial college."
- "We have been unable to find much information about Mr Chih-Chang and his connection with this Exposition, but we learned that he was born in 1877 at Tientsin, Chihli, where he also studied law at Peiyang University."
Etymology
From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 直隸 /直隶 (Zhílì, literally “directly subordinate to / administered by the emperor or the central government”).
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 直隸
Usage
Inflected Forms
Chih-li (alternative)