Yangtze

Meaning

Proper Noun

• The longest river in China that flows to the East China Sea north of Shanghai.

Related

Similar words

• Chang Jiang, Ch'ang Chiang
• Blue River
• Long River

Origin

• A transliteration from Mandarin , Wade-Giles romanization: Yang²-tze³.
• The Chinese character name corresponding to 'Yangtze River', , was borrowed from an old name for the part of the Yangtze River near Yangzhou.
• The folk etymology that it means "Son of the Ocean" derives from the homophonic misnomer 洋子江 which was apparently given to Matteo Ricci, whose posthumously-published journals popularized the name in Europe as Latin Iansu and Iansuchian.