Zhijiang
English
Alternative forms
- Chihkiang (Postal Romanization)
- Chih-chiang (Wade–Giles)
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 枝江 (Zhījiāng).
Pronunciation
- enPR: jûʹjyängʹ[1]
Proper noun
Zhijiang
- A county-level city in Yichang, Hubei, China.
- [1976, IDE Special Paper, numbers 1-12, →OCLC, page 41:
- However, Hsinch'ang District, Chihchiang County, Hupei Province is well known for its use of the ox-drawn, three-bladed cultivator in cotton farming.]
- 2020 January 24 [2020 January 23], “Coronavirus Death Toll Climbs in China, and a Lockdown Widens”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-01-24:
- By evening, officials planned to also close off Huanggang, a city of seven million about 30 miles east of Wuhan, shut rail stations in the nearby city of Ezhou, which has about one million residents, and impose travel restrictions on the smaller cities of Chibi and Zhijiang.
Translations
References
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Chihkiang or Chih-chiang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 392, column 3
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhijiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3564, column 3
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