Etymology

Yangtze Kiang

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The story

From the Postal Romanization of the Nanjing Mandarin pronunciation of 揚子江 /扬子江 (Yángzǐ Jiāng) before the palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.