Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Ji'an.
In Chi-chou 吉州⁹³ the price per shih is 25 kuan 850 wên; [one shih is] 120 ko; the freight money to Chien-k’ang is 2 kuan 900 wên per shih.
1973, Ulrich Libbrecht, “The Shu-shu chiu-chang and Life in Sung China”, in Chinese Mathematics in the Thirteenth Century: The Shu-shu chui-chang of Ch’in Chui-shao, MIT Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4353 more examples
Some correspondents who toured the old Red shrines of southern Kiangsi in 1953 testify that Chi-an county alone has an annual rice surplus of over a million shih, because its population is small (150,000 in 1953) and available agricultural land is plentiful.
1959, Ping-ti Ho, Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 284We were in Chi-an County for tea and then, crossing the newly built modern bridge over the Kan River, we arrived at Tzu-p’ing Center, where we stayed in a hotel.
1977, Chiang Yee, China Revisited, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 144A county-level municipality (shih) and the administrative centre of Ching-kang-shan Prefecture (ti-ch'ü), Chi-an is situated on the west bank of the Kan Chiang (river), at the head of navigation for small steamboats from Nan-ch'ang.
1987, “Chi-an”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, volume 3, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 186, column 3
Origin
- Mandarin吉安
- EnglishChi-an
From Mandarin 吉安 (Jí'ān) Wade–Giles romanization: Chi²-an¹.
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