lo-t'ien

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.03 in modern English

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"Yuh ying kia pi 育嬰家祕, "Domestic Mysteries regarding the Rearing of Children", a work by Wan Ts'üen 萬全, alias Mih-chai 密齋, a native of Lo-t'ien 羅田 in the extreme east of Hupeh, who lived under the Ming dynasty."
"Yü San-sheng came from Lo-t’ien in Hupeh, and was the son of a merchant."
"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)."

From Mandarin 羅田 /罗田 (Luótián), Wade–Giles romanization: Lo²-t'ien².

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