taxkorgan
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A Tajik autonomous county in Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
name
A town in Taxkorgan, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Example Sentences
- "The archeological office of the Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region museum discovered a large number of ancient tombs in Tashihkuerhkan Tadzhik Autonomous County."
- "The wind had smoothed its sand over the nearby mountains, turning them to ghosts. And beyond the snow-mass of Muztagata we entered the valley of Taxkorgan, the last town in the west."
- "Totaling 33,000, the Tajik nationality is mostly concentrated in the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County, east of the Pamirs in southwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The rest are scattered in a few counties south of the Tianshan Mountains within the same autonomous region."
- "Tash Qurghan is an autonomous county for the Tajik, therefore the majority of the population is Tajik."
- "The China Earthquake Administration (CEA) said the quake occurred in the remote Taxkorgan County area of Kashgar Prefecture at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Xinhua said in a microblog post 11 people were also injured."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: تاشقورغان
Inflected Forms
Phrases
Synonyms
Tashiku’ergan
T'a-shih-k'u-erh-kan
Tash Kurghan