Ch'ih-pi

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 赤壁 (Chìbì), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻih⁴-pi⁴.

Proper noun

Ch'ih-pi

1. Alternative form of Chibi
   • 1977, Dennis Bloodworth, Ching Ping Bloodworth, The Chinese Machiavelli: 3,000 Years of Chinese Statecraft‎^[1], Dell Publishing Co., Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 172:

     At Ch’ih-pi* on the Yangtse, the van of Ts’ao Ts’ao’s army met Lustrous Jade at the head of a combined force of 40,000 men—and was defeated on contact.

     *Near modern Hankow (Wuhan).

   • 1984, Witold Rodzinksi, The Walled Kingdom: A History of China from 2000 BC to the Present‎^[2], London: Fontana Paperbacks, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 69:

     His attempt in 208 to cross the Yangtse was frustrated in the famous battle of Ch'ih-pi, in which his immense fleet was destroyed by his enemies' fireships, and most of his army slain.

   • 1996, Jacques Gernet, translated by J. R. Foster and Charles Hartman, A History of Chinese Civilization‎^[3], 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 176–177:

     His ambitions had extended to the conquest of the Yangtze valley, but the famous battle of the Red Cliff (Ch’ih-pi), on the course of the great river in Hupei, had put a stop to this policy of expansion.

Translations

Chibi — see Chibi