Jiangxia

See also: jiàngxià

English

Alternative forms

• Chiang-hsia (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江夏 (Jiāngxià).

Proper noun

Jiangxia

1. A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China.
   • [1992, Hans Bielenstein, “The Regional Provenance of Chin-shih during Ch'ing”, in Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities‎^[1], number 64, Stockholm, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 25:

     Map 17 for 1646-1775 reveals a concentration of chin-shih, centred on Chiang-hsia (modern Wu-ch'ang, part of Wu-han), the important commercial crossroad where the Han River enters the Yangtze from the northwest.]

   • 2015 July 7, Edward Wong, “China Finds Another Real-Life Spinoff of ‘Breaking Bad’”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 September 2022, Sinosphere‎^[3]:

     Customs officials and police officers then raided Mr. Zhang’s lab in the Jiangxia district of Wuhan, a provincial capital on the Yangtze River.

   • 2016, Liandong Zhu, Ahmed Ouadha, editors, Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Sustainable Development‎^[4], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 335:

     A comparison of the three maps in Figure 1 shows that the ecological security of Wuhan from 1996 to 2006 deteriorated. However, the trend strengthened from 2006 to 2010. Jiangxia District underwent the most significant changes, transitioning from high-risk to medium-, low- and relatively low-risk.

Translations

district in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 江夏 (zh) (Jiāngxià)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can