Chiang-han

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Chiang-han

1. Alternative form of Jianghan
   • 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^[1], New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 71:

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

   • [1970, Owen L. Dawson, “Water Resources and Irrigated Area, 1967”, in Communist China's Agriculture: Its Development and Future Potential‎^[2], Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 88:

     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.]

   • 1986, Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China‎^[3], volume 6, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 115:

     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).

Translations

Jianghan — see Jianghan