hsi-ch'uan
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.13 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Xichuan.
Example Sentences
- "More recently, a Ch’u tomb at Hsi-ch’uan, Honan Province, dated to the Spring and Autumn period, has yielded several bronze vessels with decoration that suggests to the authors of the archaeological report that they might have been cast by the lost-wax method (see WW, no. 10 [1980]: 21–26, especially p. 23, pls. 1–2)."
- "Well, my father's ancestral home was not Shantung. His ancestral home was at Hsi-ch'uan hsien, in Nan-yang fu. Honan province. Honan is the central province of China, and, at one time, Loyang, one of the major cities of the province, was the capital. That's where my father's ancestral home was."
- "Among these bathing utensils at Hsi-ch'uan, the p’an 盤-shallow basin, i 匜-ladle and chien 鑑-basin are the same as their traditional Central Plains counterparts."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 淅川, -