china seas
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A series of marginal seas in the Western Pacific Ocean around China, including the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea.
Example Sentences
- "Intelligence has been received at Hong Kong of the total loss of the ship Libelle while on a voyage to that port from San Francisco, having on board a valuable cargo and specie to the extent of £76,000 in dollars, and a number of passengers, among whom were Madame Anna Bishop, Miss Phelan, Mr. M. Schrutz, and Mr. Charles Lascelles, of the English Opera Company, who, with other artists, were on a musical tour. The ship was cast away on the night of the 4th of March, on an uninhabited and dangerous reef called Wake Island, in the China Seas."
Inflected Forms
the China Seas (canonical, plural)