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

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Jiāngdōng

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄤㄉㄨㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gong¹ dung¹
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹kaon-ton

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Jiāngdōng
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄤㄉㄨㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Jiangdong
  - Wade–Giles: Chiang¹-tung¹
  - Yale: Jyāng-dūng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Jiangdong
  - Palladius: Цзяндун (Czjandun)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ tʊŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: gong¹ dung¹
  - Yale: gōng dūng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gong¹ dung¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: gong¹ dung¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔːŋ⁵⁵ tʊŋ⁵⁵/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹kaon-ton
  - MiniDict: kaon^平 ton
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹kaan-ton
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /kɑ̃⁵⁵ toŋ²¹/

Middle Chinese: kaewng tuwng

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/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kɔŋ/	/tuŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiāng	dōng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gong¹	dung¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤroŋ tˤoŋ/

(Zhengzhang): /*kroːŋ toːŋ/

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

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

Descendants

→ English: Jiangdong

Etymology 2

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

Proper noun

江東

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

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Korean 강동 (Gangdong).

Proper noun

江東

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

Coordinate terms

江南 (Jiāngnán)
江西 (Jiāngxī)
江北 (Jiāngběi)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
江	東
こう Grade: S	とう Grade: 2
on'yomi

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

江東区

Proper noun

江(こう)東(とう) • (Kōtō)

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

Korean

Hanja in this term
江	東

Proper noun

江東 • (Gangdong) (hangeul 강동)

hanja form^? of 강동 (“a county of North Korea”)

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