nanzhao
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
a kingdom that flourished in present-day Yunnan, China, between 739 and 902 CE.
Example Sentences
- "Chang Tiehtou or Iron Head Chang, another bandit ringleader, is now staying at Tenghsien in South Honan, with about 2,000 guns. Tsui Er-tan and Wei Kuo-chu, both famous bandit ringleaders, with about 7,000 guns, who had captured several villages in the Nanchao Hsien region and set some of them on fire are reported to have been defeated by the Government troops."
- "On 3 February some 10,000 proletarian revolutionaries, revolutionary masses, and PLA commanders and fighters in Nanchao County held a rally to celebrate the setting up of the Nanchao County revolutionary committee."
- "Since foreigners are still prohibited from entering most such areas, I was able to visit only those that had already benefited from international and government-supported microfinance programs (discussed below), specifically Yucheng County in the east and Nanzhao County in the southwest of the province."
- "The couple, who were not named, took the raft trip in a natural park in Nanzhao county in northern Henan province, the report said."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 南詔, 南召
Inflected Forms
Nan-chao (alternative)