Zhijiang

See also: zhǐjiāng and Zhījiāng

English

Alternative forms

• Chihkiang (Postal Romanization)
• Chih-chiang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 枝江 (Zhījiāng).

Pronunciation

• enPR: jûʹjyängʹ

Proper noun

Zhijiang

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.]

   • [1958, Wang Chun-heng, “The Middle Yangtse Region”, in A Simple Geography of China (China Knowledge Series)‎^[3], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 117:

     Floods in the middle Yangtse were frequent in the past. The Yangtse carries less silt than the Yellow River. But under the old regimes, the Chingkiang section (the section of the middle Yangtse between Chihchiang County in Hupeh Province and Chenglingchi in Hunan Province), the shores of the Tungting Lake and the lower teaches of the Han Shui were frequently flooded, causing great damage to the vast plain of Hupeh and Hunan.]

   • [1976, IDE Special Paper‎^[4], numbers 1-12, →OCLC, page 41:

     However, Hsinch'ang District, Chihchiang County, Hupei Province is well known for its use of the ox-drawn, three-bladed cultivator in cotton farming.]

   • 2020 January 24 [2020 January 23], “Coronavirus Death Toll Climbs in China, and a Lockdown Widens”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-01-24‎^[6]:

     By evening, officials planned to also close off Huanggang, a city of seven million about 30 miles east of Wuhan, shut rail stations in the nearby city of Ezhou, which has about one million residents, and impose travel restrictions on the smaller cities of Chibi and Zhijiang.

Translations

county-level city in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 枝江 (zh) (Zhījiāng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhijiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3564, column 3