Ch'ieh-mo

English

Map including Ch'ieh-mo (CIA, 1950)

Etymology

From Mandarin 且末, Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻieh³-mo⁴.

Proper noun

Ch'ieh-mo

1. Alternative form of Qiemo
   • 1959, Kazuo Enoki, “On the Nationality of the Ephthalites”, in Sei Wada, editor, Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko‎^[1], number 18, Minato-ku, Tokyo: Kasai Publishing & Printing Co. (Pan Pacific Press), →OCLC, page 28:

     The Liang-shu mistakes Mo 末 for Chʻieh-mo 且末 during the Han (漢). But, adjoining Po-ssŭ in the west and Po-tʻi 白題 (Balkh) in the east, it should be identified with Marw. The statement of the Liang-shu that Mo adjoins Ting-ling 丁零 or Kao-chʻê 高車 in the north is based on the misunderstanding that Mo was located at Chʻieh-mo of what is now Cherchen in Chinese Turkestan.

   • 1996, Jacques Gernet, translated by J. R. Foster and Charles Hartman, A History of Chinese Civilization‎^[2], 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 201:

     These relations even became closer under the Liang of Nanking during the first half of the sixth century as a result of the expansion of the Tʻu-yü-hun toward the oases of Shanshan and Chʻieh-mo (the present-day Cherchen).

   • 1996, János Harmatta, editor, History of Civilizations of Central Asia‎^[3], volume 2, UNESCO, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 224:

     The natives of Shan-shan were also skilled at making arms and in the states west of Ch'ieh-mo 'the arms made were like those of the Han'.

Translations

Qiemo — see Qiemo