Chang Jiang
See also: Cháng Jiāng
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Ch'ang Chiang
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 長江／长江 (Cháng Jiāng).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʃæŋ dʒɒŋ/
Proper noun
Chang Jiang
- Synonym of Yangtze
- [1980 December, Huo, Bolin, “Shanghai Helps Backward Small Industries”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIX, number 12, Beijing: China Welfare Institute, ISSN 0009-4447, OCLC 1554324, page 34, column 1:
- ONE of the problems in China’s economy today is: In the past decade many places built industries to utilize local raw materials or supply local markets with goods. But often these plants were technically backward, and the goods they produced were of poor quality, or even unsalable. This was once true of the Xianning district, consisting of seven counties south of the Changjiang (Yangtze) River in Hubei province.]
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Synonyms
- Chang River
Translations
Yangtze — see Yangtze