Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Chibi.
At Ch’ih-pi* on the Yangtse, the van of Ts’ao Ts’ao’s army met Lustrous Jade at the head of a combined force of 40,000 men—and was defeated on contact.
1977, Dennis Bloodworth, Ching Ping Bloodworth, The Chinese Machiavelli: 3,000 Years of Chinese Statecraft, Dell Publishing Co., Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1722 more examples
His attempt in 208 to cross the Yangtse was frustrated in the famous battle of Ch'ih-pi, in which his immense fleet was destroyed by his enemies' fireships, and most of his army slain.
1984, Witold Rodzinksi, The Walled Kingdom: A History of China from 2000 BC to the Present, London: Fontana Paperbacks, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 69His ambitions had extended to the conquest of the Yangtze valley, but the famous battle of the Red Cliff (Ch’ih-pi), on the course of the great river in Hupei, had put a stop to this policy of expansion.
1996, Jacques Gernet, translated by J. R. Foster and Charles Hartman, A History of Chinese Civilization, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 176–177
Origin
- Mandarin赤壁
- EnglishCh'ih-pi
From Mandarin 赤壁 (Chìbì), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻih⁴-pi⁴.
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