Yangtse

See also: Yangtsé

English

Alternative forms

• Yang-tse

Etymology

An irregular romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 揚子／扬子 (Yángzǐ) and 揚子江／扬子江 (Yángzǐ Jiāng), q.v.

Proper noun

Yangtse

1. Alternative form of Yangtze
   • [1875 [1875 February 22], E. L. Oxenham, “VI.—On the Inundations of the Yang-tse-Kiang.”, in The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London‎^[1], volume 45, London: John Murray, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 170:

     The only claim the writer has to deal with this subject is that of having resided some three years at Han-kow, a large city of 700,000 inhabitants, situated in the province of Hu-pe, on the banks of the Yang-tse, at the place where the Han River enters it, some 600 miles from the sea, situated in the centre of the flooded districts.]

   • 1926, Lucian Swift Kirtland, Finding the Worth While in the Orient‎^[2], New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, page 192:

     A stream called the Han River separates Hankow from Hanyang, and these two towns, together with Wu-chang across the Yangtse, are known as the Wu-Han cities. The steel mills, which are often referred to as the "Hankow mills," are at Hanyang.

   • 1938, Robert Berkov, Strong Man of China: The Story of Chiang Kai-shek‎^[3], Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 146:

     War, real but undeclared, broke out at Shanghai on January 28, 1932. Two days later the National government which Chiang Kai-shek had established five years before at Nanking was moved to Loyang, far from the menace of Japanese men-of-war on the Yangtse.

   • 1957, C. E. Lucas Phillips, Escape of the Amethyst‎^[4], New York: Coward-McCann, page 10:

     This is the Yangtse—the Yangtse of the low-lying province of Kiangsu, from the ancient walled city of Chinkiang to the open sea—upon whose waters and along whose banks we shall live and move in this story.

   • 1961, Chinese Literature [中国文学]‎^[5], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, page 109:

     This strech of Yangtse, so hard to navigate, is the subject of many beautiful legends. Eleven-fifteen brings us to Tzukuei, said to be the home of the poet Chu Yuan.

   • 2015, Lawrie Ryan, Advanced Chemistry for You‎^[6], 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 44:

     The Yangtse River can burst its banks, flooding large areas of China.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yangtse.

Anagrams

• Gyantse, ageynst