Jiayu

• Kiayü
• Chia-yü (Wade–Giles)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 嘉魚 / 嘉鱼 (Jiāyú).

Jiayu

1. A county of Xianning, Hubei, China.
   • [1669 [1665], John Ogilby, transl., An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China‎^[1], London: John Macock, translation of original by John Nievhoff (in Dutch), →OCLC, page 14:

     Vuchang commands over ten Cities, as Vuhang, Vuchang, Kiayu, Puki, Hienning, Cungyang, Tungching, Hingque, Taye, Tungxan.]

   • [1968 March 19 [1968 March 18], “Chiayu County Meeting”, in Daily Report: Communist China, number 55, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Hupeh Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, page ddd 19:

     On 17 March, the Chiayu County revolutionary committee held a meeting of responsible persons of units at the county level and the various districts and farms, to convey and implement the directive from the party Central Committee, the State Council, the Military Affairs Committee, and the central Cultural Revolution Group on the urgent launching of an upsurge of spring farming.]

   • 2019 November 13, Alice Yan, “Deaths of Chinese finless porpoises on Yangtze River raise questions for conservation and fishermen’s rights”, in South China Morning Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 November 2019, Society‎^[3]:

     One was found on Monday in Jiayu county, central Hubei province, four days after the remains of another were recovered from Dongting Lake, a tributary of the Yangtze in central Hunan province, […]

• Jiayu, Chia-yü at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jiayu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1447, column 3