Yiwu

• I-wu (Wade–Giles)

• IPA^(key): /jiːˈwuː/, enPR: yēʹwo͞oʹ^[1]

From Mandarin 伊吾 (Yīwú).

Yiwu

1. Synonym of Aratürük: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • 1979 October, Rewi Alley, “Gansu”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[2], volume XVIII, number 10, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30, column 2:

     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.

   • 1997, “Strategic Passage of the Western Regions”, in Travelling around Xinjiang: A Land of Enchantment‎^[3], Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 211, column 1:

     In the Kaiyuan reign period of the Tang Dynasty, Beiting commissioner was appointed to command the troops in Hanhai, Tianshan and Yiwu (Araturuk). The troops in Yiwu (Araturuk) were stationed in Ganluchuan.

   • 2016 July 21, Eset Sulaiman, Brooks Boliek, “In China's Xinjiang a Way of Life Waits to Die”, in Eset Sulaiman, transl., Radio Free Asia‎^[4], sourced from RFA’s Uyghur Service, archived from the original on 22 July 2016‎^[5]:

     “Aratürk (Yiwu) County’s party committee and government has issued a plan to liberate farmers from the ketmen and herders from the qamcha,” said a high ranking county official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
     A ketmen is a traditional digging took used by Uyghur farmers, while a qamcha is a type of whip used by Uyghur herders.

   • 2018, Zhivko Voynikov, “INFORMATION ON BULGARIAN PEOPLE IN THE CHINESE DYNASTIC CHRONICLES”, in WHO ARE THE ANCIENT BULGARIANS OR PROTOBULGARIANS?‎^[6], page 68:

     The Yiugurs called the city Yiwu or Aratürük, close to Hami, Tuhulu 吐葫蘆.

From Mandarin 義烏 / 义乌 (Yìwū).

Yiwu

1. A county-level city of Jinhua, Zhejiang, China.
   • 1938, Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China‎^[7], Grove Press, published 1978, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 559:

     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.

   • 1942 May 25, “Chinese Occupy Strategic Points On Old Caravan Road”, in The Bombay Chronicle‎^[8], volume XXX, number 123, →OCLC, page 1:

     The text of to-night's "communique" says:-
     [...]Heavy fighting is continuing in the East Chekiang province with the Japanese launching vigorous attacks at Kienteh and Yiwu to the north-east of Kinhawa, the provincial capital.
     The Japanese troops on the Railway first attacked the Chinese positions in the vicinity of Yiwu in mass formation and then split up into several small units and attempted infiltration tactics.

   • 2013 December 13, Julie Bosman, “Welcome to Tchotchke Town”, in The New York Times‎^[9], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 4 August 2020, Magazine‎^[10]:

     If it’s small, cheap and made of plastic, it can probably be found in Yiwu, a city in China’s southeastern Zhejiang province.

   • 2019 October 30, Anna Fifield, “In China’s capital of Halloween slime and ooze, the trade war is a scary subject”, in The Washington Post‎^[11], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 October 2019, Asia & Pacific‎^[12]:

     From the widget wholesalers of Yiwu, south of Shanghai, to the halls of Communist Party power in Beijing, there is consternation that the trade war has dragged on for so long and doubt that the next battle could be a turning point.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yiwu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[13], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3529, column 1