江東

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See also: 江东

Chinese

river east
trad. (江東) 江 東
simp. (江东) 江 东
anagram 東江／东江
Literally: “east of the river”.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 江 東
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 江 (9) 東 (1)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) II I
Fanqie 古雙切 德紅切
Baxter kaewng tuwng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kˠʌŋ/ /tuŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kᵚɔŋ/ /tuŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kɔŋ/ /tuŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kaɨwŋ/ /təwŋ/
Li
Rong 		/kɔŋ/ /tuŋ/
Wang
Li 		/kɔŋ/ /tuŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kɔŋ/ /tuŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jiāng dōng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gong1 dung1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 江 東
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jiāng dōng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kæwng › ‹ tuwng ›
Old
Chinese 		/*kˁroŋ/ /*tˁoŋ/ (< *tˁoŋʔ ?)
English (Yangzi) river east

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 江 東
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 3995 2435
Phonetic
component 		工 東
Rime
group 		東 東
Rime
subdivision 		0 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		江 東
Old
Chinese 		/*kroːŋ/ /*toːŋ/
Notes 種（種籽）初文，甲金文象種皮甲坼萌生根芽，
參敕字陳字注

Etymology 1

Between Wuhu and Nanjing, the Yangtze River flows south to north. The east side of the river is on the southern bank.

Proper noun

江東

  1. (literary) the south bank of the Yangtze River between Wuhu and Nanjing; (in general) area south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze
  2. (historical) Sixty-Four Villages East of the River, Jiangdong (a community in Amur Oblast, Russia)
Descendants
  • → English: Jiangdong

Etymology 2

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 江東(こうとう) (kōtō, “Kōtō”)

Proper noun

江東

  1. (～區) Kōtō (a special ward of Tokyo prefecture, Japan)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Korean 강동 (Gangdong).

Proper noun

江東

  1. (～區) Gangdong (a district of Seoul, South Korea)

Coordinate terms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
江 東
こう
Grade: S 		とう
Grade: 2
on’yomi
Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ja

Proper noun

江(こう)東(とう) • (Kōtō) 

  1. Kōtō (one of 23 special wards in Tokyo prefecture, Japan)
  2. Jiangdong (a district of Zhejiang, China)

Korean

Hanja in this term
江東

Proper noun

江東 • (Gangdong) (hangeul 강동)

  1. Hanja form? of 강동 (“a county of North Korea”).
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