The story
- Mandarin · borrowed from錢塘 /钱塘
- English todayQiantang
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 錢塘 /钱塘 (Qiántáng), named for the dyke constructed on the river by Qian Liu, ruler of Wuyue, one of the Ten Kingdoms that succeeded the Tang dynasty.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.