Yiwu

See also: yīwù, yíwù, yìwù, and Yìwū

English

Alternative forms

• I-wu (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 義烏 / 义乌 (Yìwū).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jiːˈwuː/, enPR: yēʹwo͞oʹ

Proper noun

Yiwu

1. A county-level city in Jinhua, Zhejiang, China.
   • 1938, Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China‎^[2], Grove Press, published 1978, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 559:

     Wu Han was born in Yiwu, Chekiang, in 1909, in a middle-class family too poor to pay for his education at National (Tsing Hua) University, where Wu supported himself by tutoring until his graduation in 1934.

   • 1942 May 25, “Chinese Occupy Strategic Points On Old Caravan Road”, in The Bombay Chronicle‎^[3], volume XXX, number 123, →OCLC, page 1:

     The text of to-night's "communique" says:-
     [...]Heavy fighting is continuing in the East Chekiang province with the Japanese launching vigorous attacks at Kienteh and Yiwu to the north-east of Kinhawa, the provincial capital.
     The Japanese troops on the Railway first attacked the Chinese positions in the vicinity of Yiwu in mass formation and then split up into several small units and attempted infiltration tactics.

   • 2013 December 13, Julie Bosman, “Welcome to Tchotchke Town”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-04, Magazine‎^[5]:

     If it’s small, cheap and made of plastic, it can probably be found in Yiwu, a city in China’s southeastern Zhejiang province.

   • 2019 October 30, Anna Fifield, “In China’s capital of Halloween slime and ooze, the trade war is a scary subject”, in The Washington Post‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 October 2019, Asia & Pacific‎^[7]:

     From the widget wholesalers of Yiwu, south of Shanghai, to the halls of Communist Party power in Beijing, there is consternation that the trade war has dragged on for so long and doubt that the next battle could be a turning point.

Translations

city in Zhejiang

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 義烏 / 义乌 (zh) (Yìwū)

• Hungarian: Jivu (hu)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yiwu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3529, column 1