Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Yichang.
Just below Hsi-ling Gorge lies the small city of I-ch'ang, the first river port beyond the gorges.
1988, Lyman P. Van Slyke, Yangtze: Nature History and the River, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 203 more examples
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.
The Chinese Empire
1904, C. D. Tenney, “中國 [Zhōngguó, The Chinese Empire]”, in Geography of Asia, New York: MacMillan and Co, →OCLC, page 3River 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.
1911, Ethel Daniels Hubbard, Under Marching Orders, →OCLC, page 75Yangtzee^([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.
2007, Ginger Gorham, Susan Rice, Travel Perspectives, 4th edition, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 63
Origin
- Mandarin宜昌
- EnglishI-ch'ang
From Mandarin 宜昌 (Yíchāng) Wade–Giles romanization: I²-chʻang¹.
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