panchiao
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Banqiao.
Example Sentences
- "Congregations consist mainly of Mandarin-speaking refugees from the mainland but Taiwanese are not excluded. Student centers were established at Taipei, Panchiao, and Tainan for Bible study, fellowship, and personal counseling."
- "Secondly, figure the percentage of the area's total numbers represented by each category in each township. For example, we found that the respective total numbers of the (A), (B), (C), and (D)⁸ farm households for the Panchiao and Shulin townships in the high-economic land-class area of the Taipei-Yilan region were 621 and 377; 483 and 571; 727 and 401; 359 and 412, respectively and that the total numbers of the whole area were 998, 1054, 1128, and 771, respectively.⁹ The two townships' percentages in the Panchiao-Shulin area's total numbers of the various farm households were 62.2 and 37.8; 45.7 and 54.3; 64.4 and 35.6; 41.3 and 58.7, respectively.¹⁰"
- "Some 300 schoolchildren, led by their teacher, jogged to Taipei from suburban Panchiao to take part in the ceremony, while a group of citizens from the coastal spa resort of Chiaohsi in Ilan county arrived aboard chartered buses."
- "The Lin Gardens (☏ 9653061) are in the suburb of Panchiao (bǎnqiáo), south-west of Taipei proper."
- "A leaky natural gas pipeline caused a spectacular fire that engulfed a district of Taipei, injuring 12 people and destroying 54 homes. Police said the gas flow wasn’t cut until more than an hour after the initial explosions Thursday in the commercial and residential area in suburban Panchiao."
- "Making the run from Taipei to Panchiao every day to sell the gold-colored paper, he scraped together a meager livelihood."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
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