Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Yiwu.
The famous general Ch'i Chi-kuang led troops from Chekiang's I-wu County in the campaigns against Japanese pirates on the southeast coast between 1561 and 1567.
1995, Thomas G. Nimick, “CH'I CHI-KUANG AND I-WU COUNTY”, in Ming Studies, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC2 more examples
The provincial censor, Chu I-hsin, a native of I-wu [in Chekiang], who was then lecturing at the Kuang-ya Academy, called on me and we debated on many questions.
1967, Jung-pang Lo, editor, K'ang Yu-wei: A Biography and a Symposium, University of Arizona Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 53In I-wu county in Wu-chou (Chin-hua) there are scattered storehouse proprietors and brokers who undertake the buying and selling (of silk). ... Previously the people in the hilly valleys of I-wu county made their living by weaving thin silk.
1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China, published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 114
Origin
From the Wade–Giles romanizations of various Mandarin Chinese names.
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