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I-wu

I-wu is the alternative form of Yiwu.

Meaning of Yiwu

Proper noun (1)

Yiwu

  1. A county of Hami, Xinjiang, China.
    • In the city, the old drum-tower now has the mottoes over each gate restored. West to Yiwu (Araturuk) in Xinjiang, north to the desert, south to the Qilian Mountains, and east to Hua Shan, it is certainly a graceful addition to a modernizing city.1979 October, Rewi Alley, “Gansu”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVIII, number 10, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30, column 2
    Synonyms:
    Aratürük, Araturuk

Proper noun (2)

Yiwu

  1. A county-level city of Jinhua, Zhejiang, China.
    • Wu Han was born in Yiwu, Chekiang, in 1909, in a middle-class family too poor to pay for his education at National (Tsing Hua) University, where Wu supported himself by tutoring until his graduation in 1934.1938, Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China, Grove Press, published 1978, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 559

Proper noun (3)

Yiwu

  1. (historical) A former province in Hebei, China, during the Tang and Five Dynasties eras.
    Synonyms:
    Yiding

Origin of I-wu

From the Wade–Giles romanizations of various Mandarin Chinese names.

Questions about I-wu

What is I-wu the alternative form of?
I-wu is the alternative form of Yiwu.

Words near I-wu in the dictionary

  1. I-tu
  2. i-umlaut
  3. I-way
  4. i-word
  5. i-words
  6. I-wu
  7. I.
  8. I. C.
  9. I. C.s
  10. i. e.
  11. I. M.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: I-wu (page history and authors); Yiwu (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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