hangchou
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Hangzhou.
Example Sentences
- "The Emperor Kao-tsung (1107-1162), whose official name was Kou, and whose familiar name was Te-chi, was the ninth son of the Emperor Hui-tsung. At first he was entitled Prince of K'ang, but on the two emperors Hui-tsung and Ch'in-tsung being taken north as prisoners by the Khitan he established himself as emperor in Hangchou."
- "The Sung Dynasty is divided into a Northern and Southern Sung, the former when the capital was at Kaifeng, and the latter when Hangchou was the capital."
- "When the dust settled, there was the Chin dynasty with its own emperor plus two Sung emperors as prisoners in the north, and Kao-tsung, the first emperor of the Southern Sung, in Hangchou."
Etymology
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