 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1895 - 1054 pages
...adzes)," while on p. 32, speaking of these jD«-coins, he says, " Their name pu, flj , which means ' spread out,' was used in olden times for this money in the Ts'i State." shape to which the term was applied represents a hoe or an adze. Now it may again be pointed out that... | |
 | Coins - 1894 - 256 pages
...classification. They are degenerated from the old patterns of the Spade-Money. Their name Pu, which means ' spread out ', was used in olden times for this money in the Tt'i State, ie W. Shantung, a region already pointed out as conspicuous in the infancy of Chinese currency.... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1895 - 1096 pages
...adzes)," while on p. 32, speaking of these jou-coins, he says, " Their name pu, tfj, which means ' spread out,' was used in olden times for this money in the Ts'i State." So far as I can follow M. Lacouperie, I suppose him to consider that the term pu means cloth, but that... | |
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On the same page, he translates huo pu by "exchangeable (cloth) money," and ch'ien pu by "hoes and cloth"; so, on p. xii., "Pus (hoes or adzes), 