nan-ch'uan

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.28 in modern English

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"Meeting us came porters with loads of coal, coke, and lime, in which the district of Nan-ch'uan Hsien is rich. Many loads of pan salt from the Tzu-liu-ching brine wells in Central Szechuan were also bound for Nan-ch'uan Hsien, three miles from which we again struck the right bank of the Nan-ch'uan River, flowing north."
"As copper-silver exchange rate was not available for Nan-ch'uan county, the exchange rate for Ho-chiang county was taken."

From Mandarin 南川 (Nánchuān) Wade–Giles romanization: Nan²-chʻuan¹.

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