江漢

See also: 江汉

Chinese

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤroŋ n̥ˤar-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*kroːŋ hnaːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	江	漢
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiāng	hàn
Middle Chinese	‹ kæwng ›	‹ xan^H ›
Old Chinese	/*kˁroŋ/	/n̥ˁar-s/ (W dialect: n̥- > MC x-, -r > -n)
English	(Yangzi) river	(river name)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

江漢

Yangtze River and Han River (漢水／汉水)
- 滔滔江漢，南國之紀。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
  滔滔江汉，南国之纪。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
  Tāotāo Jiānghàn, nánguó zhī jì. [Pinyin]
  Grandly flow the Jiang and the Han,
  Regulators of the southern States.
the region between the Yangtze River and the Han River and its neighbouring regions, in modern Hubei
(～區) Jianghan (a district of Wuhan, Hubei, China), part of Hankou.

Alternative spelling
江漢 (kyūjitai)

江(こう)漢(かん) • (Kōkan)

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