Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Qiemo.
The natives of Shan-shan were also skilled at making arms and in the states west of Ch'ieh-mo 'the arms made were like those of the Han'.
1996, János Harmatta, editor, History of Civilizations of Central Asia, volume 2, UNESCO, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 2242 more examples
The Liang-shu mistakes Mo 末 for Chʻieh-mo 且末 during the Han (漢). But, adjoining Po-ssŭ in the west and Po-tʻi 白題 (Balkh) in the east, it should be identified with Marw. The statement of the Liang-shu that Mo adjoins Ting-ling 丁零 or Kao-chʻê 高車 in the north is based on the misunderstanding that Mo was located at Chʻieh-mo of what is now Cherchen in Chinese Turkestan.
1959, Kazuo Enoki, “On the Nationality of the Ephthalites”, in Sei Wada, editor, Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko, number 18, Minato-ku, Tokyo: Kasai Publishing & Printing Co. (Pan Pacific Press), →OCLC, page 28These relations even became closer under the Liang of Nanking during the first half of the sixth century as a result of the expansion of the Tʻu-yü-hun toward the oases of Shanshan and Chʻieh-mo (the present-day Cherchen).
1996, Jacques Gernet, translated by J. R. Foster and Charles Hartman, A History of Chinese Civilization, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 201
Origin
- Mandarin且末
- EnglishCh'ieh-mo
From Mandarin 且末, Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻieh³-mo⁴.
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