I-ch'ang

From Mandarin 宜昌 (Yíchāng) Wade–Giles romanization: I²-chʻang¹.[1]

I-ch'ang

1. Alternative form of Yichang
   • 1911, Ethel Daniels Hubbard, Under Marching Orders‎, →OCLC, page 75:

     River streamers soon connected Nanking with Hankow, four hundred miles beyond, and finally, small steamboats sailed triumphantly up stream to I-ch'ang. Beyond I-ch'ang were the fierce rapids of the upper Yang-tzŭ, where foreign enterprise gave way before simple Chinese ingenuity.

   • 1988, Van Slyke, Lyman P., Yangtze: Nature History and the River‎, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 20:

     Just below Hsi-ling Gorge lies the small city of I-ch'ang, the first river port beyond the gorges.

   • 2007, Ginger Gorham, Susan Rice, Travel Perspectives‎, 4th edition, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 63:

     Yangtzee^{[sic – meaning Yangtze]} River Gorges, People's Republic of China. These gorges are most notable between I-chʻang and Feng-chieh, with cliffs 1,000 feet (320 meters) high.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:I-ch'ang.

• “I-ch'ang”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “I-ch'ang”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “I-ch'ang” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.

• Changi, Chiang, aching