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Chihli
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English
Alternative forms
en Chih-li
Etymology
From the en cmn-wadegiles - romanization of en cmn 直隸 Zhílì directly subordinate to / administered by the emperor or the central government.
Pronunciation
jûʹlēʹ
chēʹlēʹ hyperforeignen 1952 Chihli, Gulf of Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 393 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/393/ 1 Chihli, Gulf of (chēʹlēʹ, Chinese jûʹlēʹ),en 1979 Chih·li, Gulf of The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas https://archive.org/details/internationalgeo00houg/ Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 0-395-27170-3 79-2721 5171913 154 https://archive.org/details/internationalgeo00houg/page/154/ 2 Chih·li, Gulf of (chēʹlēʹ),
en Chih li
Proper noun
en obsolete en Zhili.
en 1895 May John Ross Manchuria w:The Scottish Geographical Magazine https://archive.org/details/scottishgeograph11scotuoft/page/n243/ XI V Edinburgh w:Royal Scottish Geographical Society 0036-9225 871707415 220–221 https://archive.org/details/scottishgeograph11scotuoft/page/221/ The Yalu is mainly useful in floating down immense rafts of wood, which find their way from the town of Antung, at the mouth of the river, to the port of Newchwang, and to Chefoo and Tientsin for the provinces of Shantung and Chihli.
en 1908 w:Edward Harper Parker Ancient China Simplified https://archive.org/details/ancientchinasimp00park_0/ London w:Chapman & Hall, Ltd. 563512600 xi https://archive.org/details/ancientchinasimp00park_0/page/n16/ TS‘I: principality, separated by the Yellow River from Tsin and Yen; it lay in North Shan Tung, and in the coast part of Chih Li. on
en February 28, 1984 w:Herbert Mitgang RICHARD LATTIMORE DEAD; A CLASSICAL SCHOLAR AND POET w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20150524160609/https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/28/obituaries/richard-lattimore-dead-a-classical-scholar-and-poet.html 24 May 2015 https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/28/obituaries/richard-lattimore-dead-a-classical-scholar-and-poet.html 0362-4331 1645522 Obituaries Mr. Lattimore was born in Paotingfu, China, where his American parents served on the faculty of the Chihli provincial college.
en 2017 The March 2017 Baltimore Auction of U.S. Coins https://archive.org/details/ctionofuscoins2017329stacksbower1/ Stack's Bowers 54 https://archive.org/details/ctionofuscoins2017329stacksbower1/page/n83/ 1 We have been unable to find much information about Mr Chih-Chang and his connection with this Exposition, but we learned that he was born in 1877 at Tientsin, Chihli, where he also studied law at Peiyang University.
Derived terms
Gulf of Chihli
References
Further reading
en Places in China Former political divisions