Chinese Dialects : List with all references

Number: 286

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 江

MC description : 江開二平江見

ZIHUI: 3068 2328

Beijing: ćiaŋ 11

Jinan: ćiaŋ 11

Xi'an: ćiaŋ 11

Taiyuan: ćia_̃ 1

Hankou: ćiaŋ 11

Chengdu: ćiaŋ 11

Yangzhou: ka_ŋ 11; ćiâŋ 11 (lit.)

Suzhou: ćia_ŋ 11 (lit.); ka_ŋ 11

Wenzhou: kuɔ 11

Changsha: ćian 11

Shuangfeng: ćiaŋ 11

Nanchang: kɔŋ 11

Meixian: kɔŋ 11

Guangzhou: kɔŋ 11

Xiamen: kaŋ 11

Chaozhou: kaŋ 11

Fuzhou: kouŋ 11 (lit.); köyŋ 11

Shanghai: ka_̃ 1

Zhongyuan yinyun: kiaŋ 1

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Chinese characters :

Character: 江

Modern (Beijing) reading: jiāng

Preclassic Old Chinese: krōŋ

Classic Old Chinese: krōŋ

Western Han Chinese: krōŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: krōŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: kọ̄ŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: kọ̄ŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: kọ̄ŋ

Middle Chinese: kạuŋ

English meaning : river; Yang-zi River

Russian meaning[s]: 1) большая река; 2) р. Янцзы; 3) 3-е число (в телеграммах); 4) Цзян (фамилия)

Shuowen gloss: 江水.出蜀湔氐徼外#山.入海.從水.工聲. [517]

Comments: Viet. sông 'river' may be an older loan from the same source.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 85

Four-angle index: 93

Karlgren code: 1172 v

Vietnamese reading: giang

Jianchuan Bai: kü̃4

Dali Bai: kü5

Bijiang Bai: ṭõ7

Shijing occurrences: 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *kruaŋ

Meaning: river, valley

Chinese: 江 *krōŋ river.

Kachin: kruŋ¹ a valley.

Lushai: ? kuaŋ, KC *kuaŋ the channel (of river).

Lepcha: kjoŋ a river, a stream

Comments: ? PG *sjoŋ river, stream; Dimasa di-khoŋ river. Sh. 47; Ben. 39. Cf. *luaŋ. Cf. PAA *ruaŋ / *rɔ:ŋ 'river' (see Peiros 1998, 226).