Yangzi Jiang
See also: Yángzǐ Jiāng
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 揚子江／扬子江 (Yángzǐ Jiāng).
Proper noun
Yangzi Jiang
- Synonym of Yangtze: A major river in China, the third-longest river in the world
- 1979, Ronald Francis Price, Education in Modern China, Routledge & Kegan Paul, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 93:
- The most important inland water transport takes place along three great rivers, the Xi-jiang (West River) by Guangzhou (Canton); the Yangzi Jiang, which links Shanghai, Wuhan and Chongqing (Chungking); and the Songhua Jiang (Sungari) which passes through Ha’erbin (Harbin) in the north-east.
- 1990, Michael Loewe, “The Gifts of Nature and their Problems”, in The Pride that was China (Sidgwick & Jackson Great Civilizations Series), →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3:
- The second of China’s best-known rivers, the Yangzi Jiang (also known as the Chang Jiang), is fed by a number of tributaries that rise from that central massif that lies to the west. Crossing the Sichuan basin, the Yangzi strides across succeeding provinces in an easterly direction, finally reaching the sea close to Shanghai.
French
Alternative forms
- Yang-Tsze-Kiang (obsolete)
- Yang Tse Kiang (dated)
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.