gaoxiong
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Kaohsiung (city)
name
Alternative form of Kaohsiung (former county)
Example Sentences
- "On March 5, all the government and military institutions in Gaoxiong were occupied, and over 700 Kuomintang troops were held captive. The people’s forces from Taizhong, Douliu, Dounan, and Zhushan converged on Huwei, and regrouped into a combined force to capture Huwei airport. All the Chiang troops there surrendered."
- "After capturing Zhanghua, he was declared “Marshal of Obedience to Heaven”. Meanwhile, another man named Zhuang Datian, having raised the standard of revolt in Fengshan (modem Gaoxiong), attacked and captured Fengshan."
- "Other examples of suppression surfaced in Taiwan. For example, a Harvard-trained woman lawyer, Lu Xiulian, who once spoke at a human-rights rally in the city of Gaoxiong, was arrested December 10, 1979."
- "According to Mrs. Li, he had only lived in Gaoxiong for eight years. He used to live in Hualian, a smaller city on the East Coast, but moved because the gods told him that there were many ghosts that needed taking care of in Gaoxiong."
- "One of his main supporters is his son, Chen Chih-chung, who was just elected to the city council in the southern Taiwanese city of Gaoxiong."
- "“For example, the ISO 3166 standard does not spell Kaohsiung as ‘Gaoxiong,’ just as it retained the spelling for Hong Kong, rather than ‘Xianggang,’ after the territory was handed over to China in 1997,” Yu said."
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