Etymology

Jiangnan

Jiang·nan
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Today it means: A roughly defined area of China always including the lands south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze in Shanghai, southern Jiangsu, and northern Zhejiang, sometimes inclusive of its cultural sphere north of the river and sometimes extending south as far as Guangdong. Full definition →

Hanyu Pinyin Jiāngnán ← Chinese 江南
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The story

  1. Chinese · derived from江南“[Place] South of the [Yangtze] River”
  2. Hanyu Pinyin · borrowed fromJiāngnán
  3. English todayJiangnan

From Hanyu Pinyin Jiāngnán, from the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 江南 (Jiāngnán, “[Place] South of the [Yangtze] River”), from Classical Chinese use of 江 (jiāng) as a proper name for the Yangtze.

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