I-chou

Proper noun

I-chou

1. Synonym of Uiju.
   • The West Coast line is exceedingly irregular. The Province of P’ing An, starting from the mouth of the Ya-lu River, on which stands the emporium of I-chou, extends for the larger half southward, then trending eastward, forms a large estuary, the southern side of which again pushes out some distance...1866 May 28, correspondent at Peking, “THE WEST COAST OF COREA.”, in The London and China Telegraph, volume VIII, number 210, →OCLC, page 284, column 1
   • The Yalou, the course of which forms the partial boundary-line between Corea and China. It springs from the White Mountains, and is of great length.[…]There is a small trading place, I-chou, close to the mouth of the river, which is at times visited by Chinese junks smuggling foreign goods into the...1880, Ernest Oppert, chapter I, in A Forbidden Land: Voyages to the Corea, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, →OCLC, page 25

   Synonyms:

   Uiju