Chia-yü

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English

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Etymology

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From Mandarin 嘉魚嘉鱼 (Jiāyú) Wade–Giles romanization: Chia¹-yü².

Proper noun

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Chia-yü

  1. Alternative form of Jiayu
    • 1978, “Artisan Ts'ui and His Ghost Wife”, in Conrad Lung, transl., edited by Y. W. Ma and Joseph S. M. Lau, Traditional Chinese Stories[1], New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 256:
      ²⁶ The fire at Red Cliff is a reference to the battle fought on the Yangtze River to the northeast of Chia-yü County in modern Hupeh between the joint forces of Wu and Shu and the armada of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period.
    • 1981, Chung-li Chang, The Income of the Chinese Gentry: a Sequel to The Chinese gentry, Studies on their Role in Nineteenth-century Chinese Society[2], Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 243:
      Hupeh
      Chang Fu-hua of Chia-yü was a provincial graduate of Hsien-feng and T'ung-chih times.
    • 1982, Chinese Studies in History[3], volumes 15-16, International Arts and Sciences Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 54:
      "At Wu-ch'ang County there were 19 ch'ing, 86 mou, of changed-ownership fields." "At Chia-yü 嘉魚 County a total of 1,573 ch'ing, 45 mou, for changed-ownership fields and the White-Sand dam."
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chia-yü.

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