Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tengchow

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: teng-chow
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Obsolete form of Dengzhou (Penglai, Shandong, China).

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"TENGCHOW is one of the cities officially opened as a port for foreign commerce, under the treaty of Tientsin, which went into actual effect in 1860."
"Henry Robinson Luce was born on April 3, 1898, to American Presbyterian missionary parents, in Tengchow (now Penglai), China."
"Accepted by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, the Mateers left for China in July 1863, and, after a harrowing journey that included shipwreck, arrived at the new mission station in Tengchow (Dengzhou), Shandong Province, in January 1864."

Etymology

From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 登州 (Dēngzhōu).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 登州

Usage

Obsolete

Questions

What does tengchow mean?: Obsolete form of Dengzhou (Penglai, Shandong, China).
Where does tengchow come from?: From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 登州 (Dēngzhōu).

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