Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Xiling.
As Wang Li-ch'i (8.202n.) points out, the place normally called Hsi-ling is located in modern Hupei near Yi-ch'ang 宜昌, about 170 miles south of Tan-shui.
2002 [145–86 BCE], Chʻien Ssu-ma, edited by William Nienhauser, The Grand Scribe's Records, volume II, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 352 more examples
Hsi-ling Gorge Hsi-ling, the third and longest of the gorges (almost thirty miles), is impressive enough in its own right but scenically it is overshadowed by its companions. Traditionally it was the most feared of all. While each gorge had its peculiar perils, Hsi-ling was notorious for its shoals and rapids, formed by periodic landslides as the river cut through the shaly and unstable layers of the Huang-ling anticline. Not far into Hsi-ling, one encountered Hsin-t'an, or "New Rapids," which took its name from slides in the sixteenth century that created this hazard.
1988, Lyman P. Van Slyke, Yangtze: Nature History and the River, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 33–34The river enters the third and final gorge some 25 miles (40 km) downstream, near the city of Hsin Tan (Xintan). Known as the Hsi-ling (Xiling), this gorge is the longest and traditionally the most feared of the Three Gorges.
2007, Laurie Burnham, Rivers (The Extreme Earth), Chelsea House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 48
Origin
- Mandarin西陵
- EnglishHsi-ling
From Mandarin 西陵 (Xīlíng) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsi¹-ling².
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