Etymology

Songjiang

Song·jiang
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Today it means: A district of Shanghai, China, located along the Grand Canal and formerly the principal city of the region. Full definition →

Mandarin 松江
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The story

  1. Mandarin · borrowed from松江
  2. English todaySongjiang

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 松江 (Sōngjiāng, literally “Pine River”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.