江
HSK 4freq #4802
Meanings
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- 1.surname Jiang
- 2.(bound form) Yangtze River
- 3.(bound form) Jiangsu Province (abbr. for 江苏[Jiāng sū])
- 1.river
- 2.CL:条[tiáo],道[dào]
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Wiktionary
- 1.Yangtze River
- 2.river (Classifier: 條／条)
- 3.(～日) (telegraphy) the third day of a month
- 4.a surname, Jiang (Mainland China), Chiang (Taiwan), Kong (Hong Kong), or Kiang (archaic)
- 5.cowpea
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kroːŋ): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 工 (OC *koːŋ). ; "Yangtze River" Borrowed from a substrate Austroasiatic language as Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kl(j)u(ŋ/k) (“river, valley”); compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *ruŋ ~ ruuŋ ~ ruəŋ (“river”) > Proto-Vietic *k-roːŋ (“river”) (Vietnamese sông), Mon ကြုၚ် (krɜŋ, “small river, creek”). Derivative: 港 (OC *kroːŋʔ, *ɡloːŋs, “harbour”).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
我的家与他的隔着一条江。
My home is separated from his by a river.
在江戶時代賞月的宴會非常受歡迎。
In the Edo period, moon-viewing parties were very popular.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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Related words
长江 Yangtze River, or Chang Jiang江城 see 江城区[Jiāng chéng Qū]江源 river source江陵 see 江陵县[Jiāng líng Xiàn]嫩江 see 嫩江市[Nèn jiāng Shì]通江 see 通江县[Tōng jiāng Xiàn]江口 see 江口县[Jiāng kǒu Xiàn]江流 river甬江 Yong River in Ningbo 宁波[Níng bō]九江 see 九江市[Jiǔ jiāng Shì]锦江 see 锦江区[Jǐn jiāng Qū]江猪 Chinese river dolphin, Lipotes vexillifer