Qiantang

• (from Wade–Giles) Ch‘ien-t‘ang Ch'ien-t'ang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 錢塘／钱塘 (Qiántáng), named for the dyke constructed on the river by Qian Liu, ruler of Wuyue, one of the Ten Kingdoms that succeeded the Tang dynasty.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˌænˈtæŋ/

Qiantang

1. A river in China, flowing north and east through Zhejiang into Hangzhou Bay.
   • [1669, Nievhoff, John, John Ogilby, transl., An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China‎, London: John Macock, →OCLC, page 238:

     In the Province of Chekiang, near the chief City of Hangcheu, runs a River, which in regard of its courſe, is called ſometimes Che, at other times Cientang, and in ſome places Cingan.]

   • 2002, Schoppa, R. Keith, Song Full of Tears: Nine Centuries of Chinese Life at Xiang Lake‎, Westview Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 3:

     To the west and beyond the lake to the south was the broad river the Qiantang, at its widest almost two miles across, at its narrowest, at least half a mile.

   • 2017 April 20, Marmer, Gerri, “D.C. community and cultural events, April 20-27, 2017”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 April 2017, Social Issues‎:

     “Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean” Author, surfer and sailor Jonathan White discusses his book, in which he recounts being under Arctic ice with an Inuit elder, hunting for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide, a race with the “Silver Dragon,” a 25-foot tidal bore that surges 80 miles up the Qiantang River, and interviewing monks who live in a tide-wreathed monastery on Mont Saint-Michel, France.

2. (historical) A former name of Hangzhou, China.