tan-chou

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.94 in modern English

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"Tan-êrh, now Tan-chou (West Hainan), may well represent the Sandar, or Zandar, or Sender of the Arabs;[…]"
"The year before, the poet had been ordered to leave Hui-chou, where he had just settled down in his new house, and proceed to Tan-chou on the west side of Hainan Island in the South China Sea."
"He left his remaining family in Hui-chou and proceeded to Tan-chou in Hai-nan accompanied only by his son Su Kuo."

From Mandarin 儋州 (Dānzhōu) Wade–Giles romanization: Tan¹-chou¹.

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