I-ch'ang

See also: Ichang

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 宜昌 (Yíchāng) Wade–Giles[1][2] romanization: I²-chʻang¹.

Proper noun

I-ch'ang

  1. Alternative form of Yichang.
    • 1904, C. D. Tenney, “中國 [Zhōngguó, The Chinese Empire]”, in Geography of Asia‎[2], New York: MacMillan and Co, →OCLC, page 3:
      The Yang-tzŭ-chiang (揚子江) is about 3,300 miles long ; it is navigable for large steamers for 600 miles to Hankow (漢口) and for light-draught steamers 360 miles further to I-chʻang (宜昌).
      Above I-chʻang there are rapid which are difficult to pass.
    • 1911, Ethel Daniels Hubbard, Under Marching Orders‎[3], →OCLC, page 75:
      River streamers soon connected Nanking with Hankow, four hundred miles beyond, and finally, small steamboats sailed triumphantly up stream to I-ch'ang. Beyond I-ch'ang were the fierce rapids of the upper Yang-tzŭ, where foreign enterprise gave way before simple Chinese ingenuity.
    • 1988, Lyman P. Van Slyke, Yangtze: Nature History and the River‎[4], Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 20:
      Just below Hsi-ling Gorge lies the small city of I-ch'ang, the first river port beyond the gorges.
    • 2007, Ginger Gorham, Susan Rice, Travel Perspectives‎[5], 4th edition, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 63:
      Yangtzee[sic – meaning Yangtze] River Gorges, People's Republic of China. These gorges are most notable between I-chʻang and Feng-chieh, with cliffs 1,000 feet (320 meters) high.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:I-ch'ang.

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References

  1. ^ Yichang, Wade-Giles romanization I-ch’ang, in Encyclopædia Britannica
  2. ^ Blunden, Caroline (1998), “Gazetteer”, in Cultural Atlas of China‎[1], Revised edition, Facts on File, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 232, 237: “Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription. […] Yichang/I-ch'ang”

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