nan-t'ou
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.30 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Nantou.
Example Sentences
- "July 31 Northern Taiwan. The second typhoon to lash Taiwan in a week struck the towns of Taipei, T'ao-yuan, and Nan-t'ou; at least 38 persons were killed."
- "Of these terms, “big fir” used at Nan-t'ou has a historic origin. The chief economic resource of the area in the early days was the timber from the fir forest growing on the central range which traverses the whole of Nan-t'ou County. Because of vote buying, the election process in Nan-t'ou County underwent a drastic change overnight."
- "A freeway connects the town to T'ai-chung city, 13 miles (21 km) north, and Nan-t'ou city, 4 miles (6 km) south."
- "Yuan-chu-min history, that of the island’s southern Min speaking Han Chinese, is in evidence farther east, in Nan-t'ou county. After reaching the heart of Nan-t'ou city, the county’s center of government and also home to Taiwan’s provincial government, one can board a bus to ascend the mountains that dominate much of the central and eastern landscape of the island."
- "Nan-t’ou County, Taiwan – Friday, May 13th, 2011 “For some reason a lot of westerners get lost on their way here, but it’s easy for Taiwanese people to find,” my hostel host warned me as he jotted down some simple walking directions to the bus service to Sun Moon Lake."
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