Chihchiang

See also: Chih-chiang

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 枝江 (Zhījiāng), Wade–Giles romanization: Chih¹-chiang¹.

Proper noun

Chihchiang

  1. Alternative form of Zhijiang.
    • 1958, Wang Chun-heng, “The Middle Yangtse Region”, in A Simple Geography of China (China Knowledge Series)‎[1], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 117:
      Floods in the middle Yangtse were frequent in the past. The Yangtse carries less silt than the Yellow River. But under the old regimes, the Chingkiang section (the section of the middle Yangtse between Chihchiang County in Hupeh Province and Chenglingchi in Hunan Province), the shores of the Tungting Lake and the lower reaches of the Han Shui were frequently flooded, causing great damage to the vast plain of Hupeh and Hunan.
    • 1971 October 21 [1971 October 11], “Hupeh Cotton Production”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 204, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Hupeh Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page D 3:
      The 130,000 mou of cotton fields in (Pailichou) district of Chihchiang County have produced 17 million catties of cotton seed, and 2.5 million catties of ginned cotton have been sold to the state.
    • 1976, IDE Special Paper‎[2], 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.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chihchiang.
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