Chiang-han

A form of Jianghan — A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China, part of Hankou.

OriginMandarin 江漢 /江汉 →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Jianghan.

    In the wind and grime of war, how long since we parted? At Chiang-han, bright autumns waste away.

    8th century CE, Tu Fu, “They Say You're Staying in a Mountain Temple”, in Talking to the Sun: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems for Young People, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 71
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    The Ching-Chiang flood-diversion basin in the middle Yangtze Valley, together with several small projects on the Han River, seems to have saved the Chiang-Han plain from innundation in recent years.

    [1970, Owen L. Dawson, “Water Resources and Irrigated Area, 1967”, in Communist China's Agriculture: Its Development and Future Potential, Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 88

    Planting and tending are the same as for the chü. (Kan trees) grow much in the vicinity of Chiang-han (in Hupei) and Thang-hsien and Têng-hsien (in Honan).

    1986, Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China, volume 6, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 115

Origin

  1. Mandarin江漢 /江汉
  2. EnglishChiang-han

From Mandarin 江漢 /江汉 (Jiānghàn) Wade–Giles romanization: Chiang¹-han⁴.

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APA

Chiang-han. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chiang-han

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“Chiang-han.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chiang-han. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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