ichang

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
14
Letters
6

Definition of ichang

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

name

  1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Yichang.
    “The affair at Tien-chiang appears to have been a local outbreak merely, and to have no proper connection with the real revolutionary movement, which seems to be unaccountably slow in spreading up the Yang-tsze from Ichang.”
    “My journey from Ichang to Wan-hsien occupied eleven days. We started on 20 February, reached Pu-tai K'ou (the boundary wbetween the provinces of Hupei and Szechwan) on the 6th, passed through the Fêng Hsiang gorge- perhaps the grandest of all the defiles- on the 8th, and beached ourselves under the walls of the city of Wan-hsien on the morning of the 12th. Here I paid off my hardy boatmen, and prepared for my overland journey to Ch'êng-tu.”
    “The situation at Hofeng is so serious and the possibility of recuring help is so slight that the leading people are leaving while it is possible to get away. Hofeng lies to the Southwest of Ichang among the mountains and has been looted three times already.”
    “The group traveled by river junk to Santouping, sixty kilometers up river from Ichang, where Peng Hsi-chung lived until a short time ago.”

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Etymology

From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 宜昌 (Yíchāng).

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