Yang-tzŭ

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 揚子／扬子 (Yángzǐ), Wade–Giles romanization: Yang²-tzŭ³.

Proper noun

Yang-tzŭ

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of Yangtze
   • [1904, C. D. Tenney, “中國 [Zhōngguó, The Chinese Empire]”, in Geography of Asia‎^[1], New York: MacMillan and Co, →OCLC, page 14:

     ANHUI (安徽).
     […] The capital, An-ch‘ing (安慶府), is situated on the Yangtzŭ River.]

   • 1907, Arthur Henderson Smith, The Uplift of China‎^[2], The Eddy Press, →OCLC, page 5:

     China is cut through by many great rivers, of which the mighty Yang-tzŭ, and the Huang Ho, or Yellow River, are the chief. Each of these rises in the mountains of Tibet, and finds its way eastward to the sea. The Yang-tzŭ, which is 60 miles wide at its mouth, with its numerous tributaries is to China what the Mississippi and Amazon are to the United States and South America.

   • 1911, Ethel Daniels Hubbard, Under Marching Orders‎^[3], →OCLC, page 74:

     Down in the vast, swarming city of Shanghai they paused to prepare for the long inland journey up the Yang-tzŭ River to Chung-ch'ing.

   • 1912, Northern China, The Valley of the Blue River, Korea‎^[4], Hachette & Company, →OCLC, page 294:

     The situation was a strange one. The allies were at that time making war both on the Court and the T'ai-p'ing rebels, whilst anarchy continued to reign in the Yang-tzŭ basin.

Translations

Yangtze — see Yangtze

Anagrams

• Tzu-yang, Tzŭ-yang