zigui
/ˌ(d)zɪˈɡweɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "At this point I left the Boat and walked with the Boat-Compradore and a Soldier-Escort up to the City of Kweichow in Hupeh. This walled city is situated half an hour's walk inland from the River."
- "Perhaps the most interesting stop was Zigui, a county seat where we docked for the second night of the cruise. A famous poet and statesman, Qu Yuan, committed suicide in about 288 B.C. by leaping into the river here. His suicide is commemmorated each spring with dragon boat races, held especially for tourists, who can participate, whenever a cruise boat pulls up. It's all rather hokey, but everybody seemed to have fun. We also explored Zigui and visited a temple honoring Qu Yuan."
- "He visited the experimental rice paddy plot in Zigui County and watched a video titled “The Advantages of Developmental Population Resettlement.”"
- "The Three Gorges have always been one geographic entity, but rarely a political one, a situation that has affected the overall development of the region, leaving Badong and Zigui counties cut off administratively and culturally from the Sichuan towns to the west and physically, by the hazards of Xiling Gorge, from Yichang and the rest of Hubei to the east."
- "By way of illustration, the Xintan landslide in Zigui County blocked the Yangzi River on two significant occasions in 1030 and 1542, obstructing navigation for 21 and 82 years respectively."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 秭歸