Meanings
alternative Chiang-hsia
- A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Customs officials and police officers then raided Mr. Zhang’s lab in the Jiangxia district of Wuhan, a provincial capital on the Yangtze River.
2015 July 7, Edward Wong, “China Finds Another Real-Life Spinoff of ‘Breaking Bad’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Sep 2022, Sinosphere3 more examples
Map 17 for 1646-1775 reveals a concentration of chin-shih, centred on Chiang-hsia (modern Wu-ch'ang, part of Wu-han), the important commercial crossroad where the Han River enters the Yangtze from the northwest.
[1992, Hans Bielenstein, “The Regional Provenance of Chin-shih during Ch'ing”, in Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, number 64, Stockholm, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 25After three days in session, the first provincial conference on suburb-based agricultural economic work ended in the Jiangxia District of Wuhan City on 24 August.
鄂学胜
1995 September 20 [1995 August 26], “Yang Yongliang, Deputy Secretary of the Hubei Provincial CPC Committee, Stresses the Need To Bring Suburban Areas' Advantages Into Play and To Build Modern Agriculture Models at the Provincial Conference on Suburb- Based Agricultural Economic Work Held in Wuhan 22-24 August”, in Daily Report: China, number 95-182, sourced from Wuhan HUBEI RIBAO pp 1, 2, translation of original by E Xuesheng (6759 1331 0524) [鄂学胜] (in Chinese), →ISSN, →OCLC, Economic Affairs, page 34, column 2A comparison of the three maps in Figure 1 shows that the ecological security of Wuhan from 1996 to 2006 deteriorated. However, the trend strengthened from 2006 to 2010. Jiangxia District underwent the most significant changes, transitioning from high-risk to medium-, low- and relatively low-risk.
2016, Liandong Zhu, Ahmed Ouadha, editors, Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Sustainable Development, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 335
Origin
- Mandarin江夏
- EnglishJiangxia
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江夏 (Jiāngxià).
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Chinese Cantonese 江夏
- 江夏 (gong¹ haa⁶)district in central China
Chinese Mandarin 江夏
- 江夏 (Jiāngxià)district in central China
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