shangjao
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Shangrao.
Example Sentences
- "And by the time Pearl Harbor came he had so incurred the wrath of the Japanese that the very first day of official war with America they sent a detachment to arrest John Birch. But he escaped, and fled to Shangjao in Kiangsi Province.[...] In January there arrived at Shangjao, after a precarious journey from Shanghai through occupied territory, a baptized native who brought a message from missionaries stranded in that city."
- "Wild Goose Pond is in Kiangsi province near the modern town of Shangjao and was the site of a famous Neo-Confucian academy as well as several important Zen monasteries."
- "In April 1942, a Chinese peasant in Shangjao took him to a sampan where Lt. Col. James (Jimmie) Doolittle and his crew were hiding. Doolittle had led the first U.S. bombing raid on Japan on April 18."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
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