I-tu

A form of Yidu — A county-level city of Yichang, Hubei, China.

OriginMandarin 宜都 →
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I-tu1

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Yidu, Hubei.

    We passed the walled district city of I-tu, situated upon a small affluent called the Ching Chiang, or Clear River, which takes its rise in the province of Hu-Nan to the south.

    1898, Archibald John Little, “Shanghai to Ichang”, in Through the Yang-tse Gorges, 3rd edition, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, →OCLC, page 33
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    Owing to the many changes in the small staff, it was not till 1898 that settled out-stations were occupied. In 1917, there are fifteen of these, the chief being I-tu 宜都, about 30 miles from Ichang.

    1917, Samuel Couling, “Church of Scotland Mission”, in The Encyclopedia Sinica, Kelly and Walsh, →OCLC, page 120

    According to the hagiography in the Ming gazetteer on Wu-tang Shan, Chang had a traditional classical upbringing as a child in I-tu 宜都 (Hupeh) and eventually entered the civil service.

    1987, Judith M. Boltz, A Survey of Taoist Literature Tenth to Seventh Centuries, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 213

I-tu2

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Yidu, Shandong.

    FÊNG Pʻu 馮溥 (T. 孔博, 易齋), 1609-1692, Jan.-Feb., official, was a native of I-tu, Shantung.

    1943, Arthur W. Hummel Sr., editor, Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1644-1912), volume 1, page 243

Origin

I-tu · proper noun

  1. Mandarin宜都
  2. EnglishI-tu

From Mandarin 宜都 (Yídū) Wade–Giles romanization: I²-tu¹.

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I-tu · proper noun

  1. Mandarin益都
  2. EnglishI-tu

From Mandarin 益都 Wade–Giles romanization: I⁴-tu¹.

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