choukoutien
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Example Sentences
- "While hoping that Peking Man may some day return, the Chinese have undertaken an extensive program of excavation since 1949 that has yield ed enough discoveries to insure that the study of the ape‐man can continue. Choukoutien, 30 miles southwest of Peking, is only one of three sites where remains of the ape‐man have been found."
- "In the more remote past, 450 million years ago, the Choukoutien area was part of a sea as the presence there of Ordovician limestone proves."
- "Food grain is being divided up among the commune peasants in every village of Fangshan County under the Peking Municipality, now that summer harvest is over. Each person in Nanhanchi production brigade of Choukoutien commune averaged 60 kilogrammes of wheat, nearly one fourth of the year's food grain allowance, in addition to cash."