pao-chi
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.04 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Baoji.
Example Sentences
- "According to the hair-dress it is probably that of a woman. There are some 102 slight traces of polychromy on the white slip. Other heads possessing similar qualities were dug up from early Han tombs in Pao-chi district, Shensi Province."
- "As has been established by recent excavations, the Pan-p’o tradition extended at least as far west as Pao-chi on the Wei River in Shensi.”) Among the Pan-p’o material excavated at Pao-chi was found a small squat water jar with a baluster-like head; painted on the surface of this vessel is the outline of a dragon-like creature (Figure 143)."
- "Sometime during the ninth century B.C., in a small Chinese state called San—situated near modern-day Pao-chi in western Shensi Province—an earl commissioned a set of ritual vessels."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 寶雞, -