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I-ling

I-ling is the alternative form of Yiling.

Meaning of Yiling

Proper noun

Yiling

  1. A district of Yichang, Hubei, China.
    • Yiling, to the east of the present Ichang, Hupeh Province, was the place where Lu Sun, a general of the state of Wu, defeated the army of Liu Pei, ruler of Shu, in A.D. 222. Liu Pei’s troops scored successive victories at the beginning of the war and penetrated five or six hundred li into the...1966 [1954], Mao Tse-tung, On Protracted War, 3rd edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, published 1967, →OCLC, page 115, note 27

Origin of I-ling

From Mandarin 夷陵 (Yílíng) Wade–Giles romanization: I²-ling².

Questions about I-ling

What is I-ling the alternative form of?
I-ling is the alternative form of Yiling.

Words near I-ling in the dictionary

  1. I-HAWKs
  2. I-hood
  3. I-Kiribati
  4. I-lan
  5. I-language
  6. I-ling
  7. i-mutation
  8. I-ness
  9. I-nesses
  10. I-ning
  11. I-novel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: I-ling (page history and authors); Yiling (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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