Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Yanling.
Long ago, when King Kung of Ch’u fought with Duke Li of Chin at Yen-ling, the Ch’u army was defeated and King Kung was wounded in the eye.
1964, Han Fei Tzu, translated by Burton Watson, Han Fei Tzu - Basic Writings, Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 501 more example
Before joining battle, the officers and warriors gathered to make divinations "before the spirits of the former rulers," as at the battle of Yen-ling between Chin and Ch'u in 575 b.c.
1965, Cho-yun Hsu, “Problems and Background”, in Ancient China in Transition: An Analysis of Social Mobility, 722–222 b.c., Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 19
Origin
- Mandarin鄢陵
- EnglishYen-ling
From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 鄢陵 (Yen¹-ling²).
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