Zhijiang
English
Alternative forms
- Chihkiang (Postal Romanization)
- Chih-chiang, Chihchiang (Wade–Giles)
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 枝江 (Zhījiāng).
Pronunciation
- enPR: jûʹjyängʹ[1]
- Hyphenation: Zhi‧jiang
Proper noun
Zhijiang
- A county-level city of Yichang, Hubei, China.
- [1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China[2], London: John Macock, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 14:
- Kingcheu commands over thirteen Cities, as Kingcheu, Cunggan, Xexeu, Kienli, Sungki, Chikiang, Iling, Changyang, Itu, Juengan, Quei, Hingxan, Patung.]
- 2020 January 24 [2020 January 23], “Coronavirus Death Toll Climbs in China, and a Lockdown Widens”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 January 2020[4]:
- 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
county-level city in central China
References
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Chihkiang or Chih-chiang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], 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[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3564, column 3