hupei
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative spelling of Hubei.
Example Sentences
- "The late Shang and early Western Chou civilization appear to have had some contact with the Szechwan Neolithic, as indicated by the remains of li tripods of gray and cord-marked ware, and sherds of tou of the Bronze Age style found in the Yangtze Valley in the extreme eastern end of Szechwan Province, where it adjoins Hupei."
- "Tseng, with neither experience nor a following in Hupei, was of course more dependent on Peking than were those who had run the province since 1958."
- "The Rev. Ching Yen, a native of Hupei, was called Huang Hsing-hua before he became a novice in 1935."
- "Wu Hai, whose objections to contamination of the patrilineal line were cited above, described an ancestral hall (tz'u-t'ang) of the Lins of Lo-t'ien (Hupei)."
- "Wen I-to was the eldest son of a renowned scholar family of Hsi-shui County in Hupei Province. At an early age he was trained in the classics by a disciplinarian father, and at then he was sent to Wuchang (a day's trip from Hsi-shui) to study at a modern grade school."
- "According to the biographer Ssuma Ch’ien (145-86 B.C.), Lao Tzu came from the southern state of Ch’u, which is now the provinces of Hunan and Hupei."
Etymology
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