Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Yiling.
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Of two roads he chose the nearer one which led to I-ling.[...]Unable to go any further, Ts’ao Ts’ao was forced to bivouac by the side of the road till daylight; was overtaken first by Chao Yün, fought his way out, and then by Chang Fei, whom he also outwitted and finally reached I-ling with only twenty-seven men, the remnant of his vast army of eight hundred and thirty thousand men!
1930, L. C. Arlington, The Chinese Drama, Benjamin Blom, published 1966, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 177
Origin
- Mandarin夷陵
- EnglishI-ling
From Mandarin 夷陵 (Yílíng) Wade–Giles romanization: I²-ling².
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