qishan
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.58 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Synonym of Zongzhou, former capital of the Zhou, now An archaeological site in Baoji, Shaanxi, China.
name
Alternative spelling of Cishan (in Taiwan).
Example Sentences
- "In one village in Chi-shan county . . . the village chief bought his son a wife with money be got by selling a cow and two huts."
- "In 1977 a large body of fragments of Chou dynasty oracle bone inscriptions was discovered at Chi-shan county in Shensi province."
- "The Mao Kung Ting was unearthed in Chi Shan County, Shensi Province around 1848. Chi Shan, located 75 miles west of Sian, is also located forty-five miles beyond the site of the famous 1974 discovery of the army of 6,000 clay figures which guarded the grave of Emperor Chʻin Shih Huang Ti."
- "Throughout Chinese history, Qishan county in Shaanxi province has been known as the ancestral homeland of the Zhou 周 people. In reality, the actual site of the Zhou homeland, known as the Zhouyuan 周原 (Plain of Zhou), includes only the eastern edge of Qishan county, where it meets Fufeng county (fig. 12-1)."
- "A quilt factory in Shaanxi's Qishan county was caught using juvenile workers who were forced to work 12 hours a day without pay for nearly six months."
- "For two decades Mr. Lu, 76, cultivated his banana trees in the Qishan district, rising at 5 a.m. and working until sunset."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 岐山, 旗山