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I-ch'ang

I-ch'ang is the alternative form of Yichang.

Meaning of Yichang

Proper noun

Yichang

  1. A large prefecture-level city in western Hubei, China.
    • To begin in the Yangtze Valley between Yi-ch’ang (Hupei) and Pa-tung (Szechwan), in the Hsiling Gorge area that was the gateway to the Red basin to the west: fifty-four early sites investigated in 1960 have been grouped into five categories, ranging in date, according to the estimates of the...[1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 177

Origin of I-ch'ang

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

Questions about I-ch'ang

What is I-ch'ang the alternative form of?
I-ch'ang is the alternative form of Yichang.

Words near I-ch'ang in the dictionary

  1. I-bars
  2. I-beam
  3. I-beams
  4. i-breve
  5. i-breves
  6. I-ch'ang
  7. I-chou
  8. I-D
  9. I-Day
  10. i-dotter
  11. i-dotters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: I-ch'ang (page history and authors); Yichang (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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