Chih-liとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 直隸 / 直隶 (Zhílì, literally “directly subordinate to / administered by the emperor or the central government”).

固有名詞

Chihli

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of Zhili
   • 1895 May, John Ross, “Manchuria”, in The Scottish Geographical Magazine‎, volume XI, number V, Edinburgh: Royal Scottish Geographical Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 220–221:

     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.

   • [1908, Edward Harper Parker, Ancient China Simplified‎, London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., →OCLC, page xi:

     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.]

   • 1984 February 28, Herbert Mitgang, “RICHARD LATTIMORE DEAD; A CLASSICAL SCHOLAR AND POET”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, Obituaries‎:

     Mr. Lattimore was born in Paotingfu, China, where his American parents served on the faculty of the Chihli provincial college.

   • 2017, The March 2017 Baltimore Auction of U.S. Coins‎, Stack's Bowers, page 54, column 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.

派生語

• Gulf of Chihli

Further reading

• “Chihli”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Chihli” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.