lukfung
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "We had not, at that time, Catechists enough to follow up the movement energetically. But the people themselves asked a Christian from Lukfung to teach them the Gospel, which he did as well as he was able."
- "The capture, by the Taipings, of the Hoifung and Lukfung district cities (in the N.E. of Hongkong) in September, 1854, seriously interfered, for a time, with the market supplies of the Colony."
- "The next so-called dialect up the coast is that of the Swatow and neighbouring districts, which is spoken by some millions, perhaps three, in one or other of its variations or dialects, such for example as the Hoi-fung, Luk-fung, etc."
- "In Hoifung we have a very clear example. That district is divided into two quite definite parts by a course of water which is formed by the lower part of the large river from Hoifung city and a canal which unites that river with another which forms the eastern boundary with the District of Lukfung."
- "Born into a peasant family in Lukfung, Li Laogong joined Peng in organizing peasant movements in his hometown and enrolled in Canton's Peasant Movement Institute, now a museum site, where early members of the CCP were trained."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 陸豐