yangshuo
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.30 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A county of Guilin, Guangxi autonomous region, China.
Example Sentences
- "On December 10, 1851 the court issued a seemingly self-confident and boastful edict,¹¹ in which it stated that Yung-an was being surrounded by imperial troops under Saishanga, who had been stationed at Yangshuo 陽朔 ; it announced, with reference to the Taiping movement, that "this wriggling little band of wretches has now become as a wandering ghost at the bottom of a caldron; whenever the day is selected it can immediately be crushed with a single blow"; and it promised that ample funds for suppressing the Taipings would be forthcoming as long as they were needed."
- "To sail downstream from Kweilin between the green hills that line the banks of the Likiang around Yangshuo is a never-to-be-forgotten experience. As another popular saying has it: “Even more beautiful than the scenery of Kweilin is that of Yangshuo.”"
- "After breakfast the next day, Ho Li-chih came to invite Yang Shu-tien and me to the Li River for a boat trip to another county, Yang-shuo.[...]This was the county of Yang-shuo that we had come to see. The respective beauties of Kuei-lin and Yang-shuo have been debated by visitors over the centuries, some extolling one and some the other."
- "Though Yangshuo County agencies did not respond to requests for interviews, the park proposal suggests a sense of rivalry with Guilin and the Li River. In it, officials note that while Guilin and the Li River were designated a World Heritage Site by the United Nations last year, Yangshuo County was named as having the single best karst landscape by Chinese National Geographic magazine."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
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Inflected Forms
Yang-shuo (alternative)