江東

江東

See also: 江东

Chinese

		river	east
trad. (江東)		江	東
simp. (江东)		江	东
anagram		東江／东江
Literally: “east of the river”.

Etymology

Between Wuhu and Nanjing, the Yangtze River flows south to north. The east side of the river is on the southern bank.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Jiāngdōng

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄤ ㄉㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gong¹ dung¹
• Wu (Wiktionary): kaan ton (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Jiāngdōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄤ ㄉㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Jiangdong
    • Wade–Giles: Chiang¹-tung¹
    • Yale: Jyāng-dūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Jiangdong
    • Palladius: Цзяндун (Czjandun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕjɑŋ⁵⁵ tʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gong¹ dung¹
    • Yale: gōng dūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gong¹ dung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gong¹ dung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔːŋ⁵⁵ tʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: kaan ton (T1)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɑ̃⁵⁵ tʊŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /kˠʌŋ  tuŋ/

Rime
Character	江	東
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	江 (9)	東 (1)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	I
Fanqie	古雙切	德紅切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠʌŋ/	/tuŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚɔŋ/	/tuŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/kɔŋ/	/tuŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kaɨwŋ/	/təwŋ/
Li Rong	/kɔŋ/	/tuŋ/
Wang Li	/kɔŋ/	/tuŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/kɔŋ/	/tuŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiāng	dōng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gong1	dung1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤroŋ  tˤoŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kroːŋ  toːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	江	東
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiāng	dōng
Middle Chinese	‹ kæwng ›	‹ tuwng ›
Old Chinese	/*kˁroŋ/	/*tˁoŋ/ (< *tˁoŋʔ ?)
English	(Yangzi) river	east
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	江	東
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	3995	2435
Phonetic component	工	東
Rime group	東	東
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	江	東
Old Chinese	/*kroːŋ/	/*toːŋ/
Notes		種（種籽）初文，甲金文象種皮甲坼萌生根芽， 參敕字陳字注

Proper noun

江東

1. (literary) the south bank of the Yangtze River between Wuhu and Nanjing; (in general) area south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze
2. (historical) Sixty-Four Villages East of the River, Jiangdong (a community in Amur Oblast, Russia).

Coordinate terms

• 江南 (Jiāngnán)
• 江西 (Jiāngxī)
• 江北 (Jiāngběi)

Descendants

• → English: Jiangdong

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
江	東
こう Grade: S	とう Grade: 2
on’yomi

Proper noun

江(こう)東(とう) • (Kōtō) 

1. Kōtō (one of 23 special wards in Tokyo prefecture, Japan)
2. Jiangdong (a district of Zhejiang, China)