zhuzhou
/ˌd͡ʒuːˈd͡ʒoʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.12 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A prefecture-level city of Hunan, China.
Example Sentences
- "A June 27 Hsinhua report tells how 8,000 young people have been successfully "settled" and "re-educated" on the outskirts of Chuchou, a city in Hunan province. Success was achieved in this task because "the Chuchou municipal committee of the Chinese Communist party raised its consciousness of the struggle between the two lines during the great movement to criticize Lin Piao and rectify the style of work.""
- "In the 1960s it was reported that Chinese uranium ore was only partly processed at the Chuchou Uranium Processing Plant in Hunan Province and was then sent to Czechoslovakia for further concentration."
- "In Hunan Province, a spill occurred Jan. 4 in the industrial city of Zhuzhou after workers cleaning up a wastewater ditch mistakenly diverted the sewage water into the nearby Xiangjiang River."
- "In May, authorities in China’s southern Hunan province detained Chen after he made a posting on social media commemorating the crackdown. He described being harassed by state security police over the years during “sensitive periods” around the anniversary date. The rights group Chinese Human Rights Defenders said he was believed to have been held in a detention center in Zhuzhou, in Hunan, shortly after."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 株洲