Chia-yü
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 嘉魚／嘉鱼 (Jiāyú) Wade–Giles romanization: Chia¹-yü².
Proper noun
Chia-yü
- Alternative form of Jiayu
- 1978, “Artisan Ts'ui and His Ghost Wife”, in Conrad Lung, transl.; Y. W. Ma, Joseph S. M. Lau, editor, Traditional Chinese Stories, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 77-21133, OCLC 906246177, OL 9818094M, 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, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, OCLC 419870767, page 243:
- Hupeh
Chang Fu-hua of Chia-yü was a provincial graduate of Hsien-feng and T'ung-chih times.
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Translations
Jiayu — see Jiayu