sui-chou
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.70 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Suizhou.
Example Sentences
- "Mou Chung-fu's dates are not known, but he was a native of Sui-chou in Hupei."
- "Her served as Censor and held other provincial posts under Emperors Hsüan-tsung and Su-tsung; later involved in a legal suit, he was banished as Marshal of Mu-chou, in Chekiang, and then as Censor of Sui-chou, in Hupeh."
- "When Ou-yang Hsiu was four years old his father died. His mother then took the boy with her to join the household of his uncle Ou-yang Yeh in Sui-chou (on the Han River in modern Hupeh). Ou-yang Hsiu remained there until he was twenty-one years old. Later in life, he characterized Sui-chou as a crude and uncultured place."
- "Ditches continued to be employed as the sole defensive measure at many sites even after wall building began to emerge. For example, an immense ditch varying between 15 and 20 meters in width and marked by depths of 2.5 to 3.8 meters has recently been discovered in Hubei near Sui-chou."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 隨州, -