Jiayu

See also: jiàyù

English

嘉鱼欢迎您
WELCOME TO JIAYU

Alternative forms

• Kiayü
• Chia-yü (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Jiayu

1. A county of Xianning, Hubei, China.
   • 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^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 November 2019, Society‎^[2]:

     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, […]

Translations

county in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 嘉魚／嘉鱼 (zh) (Jiāyú)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

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