江漢

江漢

See also: 江汉

Chinese

		river	Chinese; name of a dynasty; man
trad. (江漢)		江	漢
simp. (江汉)		江	汉
anagram		漢江／汉江

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Jiānghàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄤ ㄏㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gong¹ hon³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Jiānghàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄤ ㄏㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Jianghàn
    • Wade–Giles: Chiang¹-han⁴
    • Yale: Jyāng-hàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Jianghann
    • Palladius: Цзянхань (Czjanxanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕjɑŋ⁵⁵ xän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gong¹ hon³
    • Yale: gōng hon
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gong¹ hon³
    • Guangdong Romanization: gong¹ hon³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔːŋ⁵⁵ hɔːn³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /kˠʌŋ  hɑn^H/

Rime
Character	江	漢
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	江 (9)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	I
Fanqie	古雙切	呼旰切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠʌŋ/	/hɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚɔŋ/	/hɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/kɔŋ/	/xɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kaɨwŋ/	/hanH/
Li Rong	/kɔŋ/	/xɑnH/
Wang Li	/kɔŋ/	/xɑnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kɔŋ/	/xɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiāng	hàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gong1	hon3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤroŋ  n̥ˤar-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kroːŋ  hnaːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	江	漢
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiāng	hàn
Middle Chinese	‹ kæwng ›	‹ xanH ›
Old Chinese	/*kˁroŋ/	/*n̥ˁar-s/ (W dialect: *n̥- > MC x-, *-r > *-n)
English	(Yangzi) river	(river name)
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	漢
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	3995	4905
Phonetic component	工	暵
Rime group	東	元
Rime subdivision	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	江	漢
Old Chinese	/*kroːŋ/	/*hnaːns/

Proper noun

江漢

1. Yangtze River and Han River (漢水／汉水)

   • 滔滔江漢，南國之紀。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     滔滔江汉，南国之纪。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Tāotāo Jiānghàn, nánguó zhī jì. [Pinyin]

     Grandly flow the Jiang and the Han,
     Regulators of the southern States.

2. the region between the Yangtze River and the Han River and its neighbouring regions, in modern Hubei
3. (～區) Jianghan (a district of Wuhan, Hubei, China), part of Hankou.

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
江	漢
こう Grade: S	かん Grade: 3
on’yomi

Alternative spelling
江漢 (kyūjitai)

Proper noun

江(こう)漢(かん) • (Kōkan) 

1. a male given name