shang-lo

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.88 in modern English

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"‘The Red River rises in the Chung-ling Hill in the Shang-lo District of the Metropolis [Shensi] and flows into the Cho River. Red fish are produced in it.’"
"Ch'üan Ch'i was the scion of a great family of Feng-yang in Shang-lo [in present-day Shensi province].[...]At the beginning of the Hsiao-ch'ang reign-period [ad 525-7] he held the positions of major-general defending Lo-chou and prefect of Shang-lo."

From Mandarin 商洛 (Shāngluò), Wade–Giles romanization: Shang¹-lo⁴.

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