lungchow
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Lungchow.—Farther west than Nanning, and situated on the " Left River," a tributary of the "West River, is Lungchow, opened as a treaty port in 1887, after the Franco-Chinese War. It has not yet been connected with Hanoi by rail, as intended, on account of the reluctance of the Chinese to give the French a foothold in KWANGSI. The terminus of the railway is over the border near Lang- son, but a road connects with Lungchow, 35 miles away."
- "It was my luck to reach Lungchow just a day or two after the departure of the little steamer that came up from Nanning every week or two."
- "One unit was unexpectedly attacked in early December by local Chinese and Viet-Minh Communists from the north and the south at P'ingmeng and P'ingerhkuan (a Chinese border town about 40 miles from Lungchow), and was wiped out."
Etymology
From Mandarin 龍州／龙州 (Lóngzhōu).
Word Breakdown
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