Yidu

See also: yīdǔ, yīdù, and yìdú

English

Alternative forms

• I-tu (Wade–Giles)
• Itu, Yitu

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 宜都 (Yídū).

Pronunciation

• enPR: yēʹdo͞oʹ

Proper noun

Yidu

1. A county-level city in Yichang, Hubei, China.
   • [1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China‎^[2], London: John Macock, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 14:

     Kingcheu commands over thirteen Cities, as Kingcheu, Cunggan, Xexeu, Kienli, Sungki, Chikiang, Iling, Changyang, Itu, Juengan, Quei, Hingxan, Patung.]

   • 2023 January 9, Gorgeous Yichang, “Yidu City of Yichang”, in YouTube‎^[3], archived from the original on 2023-05-21‎^[4]:

     Located in western Hubei Province, Yidu, like Yichang, is part of the area known as the "Gateway to the Three Gorges". In days gone by, famous poets such as Li Bai (701-762), Du Fu (712-770) and Su Shi (1037-1101) wrote poems about the city and its magnificent scenery. Yidu is also the hometown of Yang Shoujing (1839-1915), a famous scholar from the late Qing Dynasty.

   • 2023 February 19, Elise Mak, “Are zombie cordyceps real in ‘The Last of Us’? The bug-eating parasitic fungi are farmed and eaten in China by humans”, in South China Morning Post‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 February 2023, Commodities‎^[6]:

     The fungi, highly sought after in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), are now being farmed on an industrial scale in China’s Hubei province. In Yidu, a county of fewer than half a million people, HEC Health has been growing cordyceps since 2007, harvesting about 50 tonnes – as much as 30 per cent of all the cordyceps collected from the wild – every year for the market.

Translations

county-level city in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宜都 (zh) (Yídū)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yidu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3528, column 1