t'ai-chung
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Example Sentences
- "The first real breakthrough seems to have come with the establishment of the Taiwan Population Studies Center in T'ai-chung in 1962. . . . T'ai-chung city is near the West coast of the island about one hundred and twenty miles south of Taipei."
- "Research needs to be done on the feasibility of the proposed combining Tʻai-chung City and Tʻai-chung County to form a third directly administered city."
- "Our station was not dreary Taipei but T'ai-chung, to the south and so sunny as to be the film center. At the edge of town, our headquarters was a Japanese-style compound quite adequate for the six Americans living there."
- "My first civilian job after the military was as a waiter at Club 63, an American noncommissioned officer's club in Tʻai-chung."
- "Botanists, in particular Aleck Yang from the National Museum of Natural Science in Tʻai-chung, have removed plants from the wild in an attempt to eradicate the pest and ultimately reestablish a healthy colony in the wild."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 臺中, -