Yangtze

Betekenis (Engels)

The chief river of central China and the third longest river in the world, flowing a total of 6300 km.

Sinonieme

Chang Jiang

Yangtze River

Chang

Yangtze Kiang

Changjiang

Long River

Vertalings

Jangtse

Yangtzé

Yangtsé

يانغتسي

Yangzi

Yangzi Jiang

Chang Jiang

Jangtsekiang

Chang Jiang

fleuve Bleu

Iang-Tsé

Iang-tsé

Jangtsekiang

Chang

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈjæŋtsi/

Etimologie (Engels)

An irregular romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 揚子 /扬子 (Yángzǐ) and 揚子江 /扬子江 (Yángzǐ Jiāng), a former name for the lower stretches of the Yangtze derived from 揚子津 (Yángzǐjīn)(zh-wikipedia), a former ferry crossing near Yangzhou, applied by foreign visitors to the entire length of the river. 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 river in Europe as Latin Iansu and Iansuchian.