Chia-yü

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

Chia-yü

1. 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, →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, 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, volume 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.

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kiayü or Chia-yü”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 942, column 3