| 释义 |
‖ itzebu, -boo|ɪtsɪˈbuː|
Also 7 ichebo, ichibo, 9 itsi-, itzi-, -bu, -bou, -bue, -boo.
[Japanese: two words, itse, itche one, bû division, part, quarter. (Of Chinese origin.)]
A Japanese phrase meaning ‘one quarter’, commonly applied to a silver coin in the form of a thin rectangular plate (with rounded corners), in use before 1871; it was the quarter of a riô or tael, and worth about 1s. 4d. sterling: see also quot. 1900.
The name is still sometimes applied to the quarter of the dollar or yen. As the meaning is ‘one bû or quarter’, its use in the plural in reference to a number of bû is an error.
1616R. Cocks Diary (Hakl. Soc.) I. 176. 1618 Ibid. II. 77. 1868 E. Seyd Bullion & For. Exchanges 265. 1900 Satow Voy. Capt. Saris 97 note, The Japanese coin called ichibu..mentioned in Cocks's Diary..was the gold coin..not the silver ichibu, which was first issued in 1837. |