I-wu

See also: iwu

English

Map including I-WU (AMS, 1955)

Etymology

From Mandarin 義烏／义乌 (Yìwū) Wade–Giles romanization: I⁴-wu¹.

Proper noun

I-wu

1. Alternative form of Yiwu
   • 1967, Jung-pang Lo, editor, K'ang Yu-wei: A Biography and a Symposium‎^[1], University of Arizona Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 53:

     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.

   • 1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China‎^[2], published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 114:

     In 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.

   • 1995, Thomas G. Nimick, “CH'I CHI-KUANG AND I-WU COUNTY”, in Ming Studies‎^[3], number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     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.

Translations

Yiwu — see Yiwu

Anagrams

• WUI