Kash

From Russian Каш (Kaš) and Chinese 喀什 (Kāshí), from Mongolian Хаш (Xaš), from Mongolian хаш (xaš, “jade”).

OUR previous survey, including the expedition up the Yurungkash gorge, had cleared up the important question as to the true origin and course of the main feeder of the Khotan River. The next and equally interesting task was to map the headwaters of the streams which drain the portion of the Kuen-lnen range south and south-west of Karanghu-tagh, and are manifestly the principal tributaries. In the course of my inquiries from the Qusha herdsmen about dominant pots that would enable me to sight again the series of maguificent glaciers which feed the Kash River, I lad ascertained that there was a difficult path just practicable for laden yaks crossing the transverse range north-west to Karanghu-tagh. It was said to lead to the Nissa Valley, whence a track could be found to the mountains on the upper Kara-kash River.

1903, Aurel Stein, “Over the Kara-kash Ranges”, in Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan, published 2005, →OCLC, page 225:

In the Chinese part of the river basin, three hydroelectric power plants have been constructed (i.e., one on the Kash River, and two on the Kenes River).

2004, V.M. Starodubtsev, O.L. Fedorenko, M.Zh. Burlibaev, “Assessment of the Influence of River Runoff Regulation on Ecological Situation”, in Christopher M. Teaf, Bulat K. Yessekin, Mikhail K. Khankhasayev, editors, Risk Assessment as a Tool for Water Resources Decision-Making in Central Asia (NATO Science Series), volume 34, Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 282:

A river in Xinjiang, China, a tributary of the Ili.


洛江

/lu̯ɔ⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/lɔːk̚² kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/lɔːk̚³ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/l̃ouʔ⁵⁻⁵⁵ kouŋ⁵⁵/

/lɔk̚⁴⁻³² kaŋ⁴⁴/

/lɔk̚²⁴⁻² kaŋ³³/

/lɔk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ kaŋ⁴⁴/

/lɔk̚⁴⁻³² kaŋ⁴⁴/

/lɔk̚⁴⁻³² kaŋ⁴⁴/

/lu̯ɔ⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/lɔːk̚² kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/lɔːk̚³ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/l̃ouʔ⁵⁻⁵⁵ kouŋ⁵⁵/

/lɔk̚⁴⁻³² kaŋ⁴⁴/

/lɔk̚²⁴⁻² kaŋ³³/

/lɔk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ kaŋ⁴⁴/

/lɔk̚⁴⁻³² kaŋ⁴⁴/

/lɔk̚⁴⁻³² kaŋ⁴⁴/


龍江

→ English: Longjiang

/lʊŋ³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/lʊŋ³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

As a Zhejiang village and port, in reference to its position on the south bank of the lower Ao, locally known as the Qinglong River (青龍江 /青龙江 (qīnglóng jiāng)).


綏芬河

→ English: Sui-fen-ho, Suifenhe

/su̯eɪ̯³⁵ fən⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/su̯eɪ̯⁵⁵ fən⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/sɵy̯⁵⁵ fɐn⁵⁵ hɔː²¹/

/su̯eɪ̯³⁵ fən⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/su̯eɪ̯⁵⁵ fən⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/sɵy̯⁵⁵ fɐn⁵⁵ hɔː²¹/

From Manchu ᠰᡠᡳᡶᡠᠨ (suifun, “awl”) + 河 (hé, “river”), used since the Qing dynasty. Earlier names include 蘇濱水／苏滨水 attested in the History of Jin [1344].

Suifen River, Razdolnaya River (a river in China and Russia)


普渡

/pʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹ tu⁵¹/

/pʰɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tɔ²²/

/pʰɔ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ tɔ⁴¹/

/pʰɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tɔ²²/

/pʰɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tɔ³³/

/pʰɔ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ tɔ³³/

/pʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹ tu⁵¹/

/pʰɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tɔ²²/

/pʰɔ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ tɔ⁴¹/

/pʰɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tɔ²²/

/pʰɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tɔ³³/

/pʰɔ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ tɔ³³/

(～河) Pudu River (a river in Yunnan, China)


怒江

→ English: Nujiang

/nu⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/nou̯²² kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/nu⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/nou̯²² kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

Nu River, or the upper reaches of the Salween River in China


那曲

/nä⁵¹ t͡ɕʰy²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/nä⁵¹ t͡ɕʰy⁵⁵/

/naː¹³ kʰʊk̚⁵/

/nä⁵¹ t͡ɕʰy²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/nä⁵¹ t͡ɕʰy⁵⁵/

/naː¹³ kʰʊk̚⁵/

Borrowed from Tibetan ནག་ཆུ (nag chu, “black river”).

Black River (a river in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China; the name for the upper reaches of the Salween)


Salween

the Salween (canonical)
Salwen (alternative)

Borrowed from Burmese သံလွင် (samlwang).

Outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao, a geologist by trade and populist by instinct, vetoed the dams in Yunnan province on the UNESCO-protected Nu River, known outside China as the Salween, in 2005, after an outcry from environmentalists.

2013 March 7, Ben Blanchard, “About 60,000 could lose homes for controversial China dams”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2016-01-26:

Three great rivers rush through parallel canyons in the mountains of southwest China on their way to the coastal plains of Asia. At least 10 dams have been built on two of them, the Mekong and the Yangtze. The third remains wild: the remote, raging Nu, known as the Salween in Myanmar, where it empties into the Andaman Sea.

2016 June 18, Edward Wong, “China’s Last Wild River Carries Conflicting Environmental Hopes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-06-18, Asia Pacific:

About 2,500 people, including 200 students, have crossed the Salween River into northern Thailand's Mae Hong Son province, according to the Free Burma Rangers. An estimated 10,000 people are believed to be displaced in Myanmar's northern Karen state, the agency said.

2021 March 29, “Myanmar: Thousands take to streets as others flee”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2021-03-29, News:

A 2,815-kilometre-long river flowing from the Tibetan Plateau into the Andaman Sea, through China, Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand.


瀾滄江

Ланьцан Цзян

/län³⁵ t͡sʰɑŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/laːn²¹ t͡sʰɔːŋ⁵⁵ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/län³⁵ t͡sʰɑŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/laːn²¹ t͡sʰɔːŋ⁵⁵ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

Possibly named after the Lao kingdom of Lan Xang (瀾滄 /澜沧 (Láncāng)); see 瀾滄／澜沧 (Láncāng) for more.

zh-l

瀾滄／澜沧 (Láncāng)


Feng

The atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 灃 /沣 (Fēng) and, as the city and surname, its alternative form 豐 /丰 (Fēng).


遼河

/li̯ɑʊ̯³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/liːu̯²¹ hɔː²¹/

/liau²³⁻³³ hɤ²³/

/li̯ɑʊ̯³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/liːu̯²¹ hɔː²¹/

/liau²³⁻³³ hɤ²³/


海河

/xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xɤ³⁵/

/hɔːi̯³⁵ hɔː²¹/

/xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xɤ³⁵/

/hɔːi̯³⁵ hɔː²¹/


永定河

ㄩㄥˇ ㄉㄧㄥˋ ㄏㄜˊ

ㄩㄥˇ ㄉㄧㄥˋ ㄏㄜˊ

/jʊŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ tiŋ⁵¹ xɤ³⁵/

/jʊŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ tiŋ⁵¹ xɤ³⁵/

Renamed, by the Kangxi Emperor, from the earlier antonymous name of 無定河／无定河 (“River of Instability”).


圖們江

/tʰu³⁵ mən³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/tʰou̯²¹ muːn²¹ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/tʰu³⁵ mən³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/tʰou̯²¹ muːn²¹ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

圖們／图们 (Túmén)


塔里木河

ㄊㄚˇ ㄌㄧˇ ㄇㄨˋ ㄏㄜˊ

ㄊㄚˇ ㄌㄧˇ ㄇㄨˋ ㄏㄜˊ

/tʰä²¹⁴⁻³⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu⁵¹ xɤ³⁵/

/tʰaːp̚³ lei̯¹³ mʊk̚² hɔː²¹/

/tʰä²¹⁴⁻³⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu⁵¹ xɤ³⁵/

/tʰaːp̚³ lei̯¹³ mʊk̚² hɔː²¹/

塔里木 (Tǎlǐmù)

Tarim River (a river in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China)


雅魯藏布江

ㄧㄚˇ ㄌㄨˇ ㄗㄤˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄐㄧㄤ

ㄧㄚˇ ㄌㄨˇ ㄗㄤˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄐㄧㄤ

Ялуцзанбу Цзян

/jä²¹⁴⁻³⁵ lu²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡sɑŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ pu⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/ŋaː¹³ lou̯¹³ t͡sɔːŋ²² pou̯³³ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/ŋaː¹³ lou̯¹³ t͡sɔːŋ²² pou̯³³ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

See 雅魯藏布／雅鲁藏布 (Yǎlǔzàngbù).

雅魯藏布／雅鲁藏布 (Yǎlǔzàngbù)

Yarlung Tsangpo (a river in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China)


伊犁河

/i⁵⁵ li³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/jiː⁵⁵ lɐi̯²¹ hɔː²¹/

/i⁵⁵ li³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/jiː⁵⁵ lɐi̯²¹ hɔː²¹/


嘉陵江

ㄐㄧㄚ ㄌㄧㄥˊ ㄐㄧㄤ

ㄐㄧㄚ ㄌㄧㄥˊ ㄐㄧㄤ

/t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵ liŋ³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/kaː⁵⁵ lɪŋ²¹ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/ka³³ liɪŋ²⁴⁻²² kaŋ³³/

/ka⁴⁴⁻³³ liɪŋ²³⁻³³ kaŋ⁴⁴/

/ka⁴⁴⁻²² liɪŋ²⁴⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/

/ka⁴⁴⁻³³ liɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ kaŋ⁴⁴/

/kɛ⁴⁴⁻²² liɪŋ¹³⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/

/t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵ liŋ³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/kaː⁵⁵ lɪŋ²¹ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/ka³³ liɪŋ²⁴⁻²² kaŋ³³/

/ka⁴⁴⁻³³ liɪŋ²³⁻³³ kaŋ⁴⁴/

/ka⁴⁴⁻²² liɪŋ²⁴⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/

/ka⁴⁴⁻³³ liɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ kaŋ⁴⁴/

/kɛ⁴⁴⁻²² liɪŋ¹³⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/


岷江

/min³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/mɐn²¹ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/min³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/mɐn²¹ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

Min River (a river in Sichuan Province, China)


湘江

/ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/sœːŋ⁵⁵ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/siɔŋ³³ kaŋ³³/

/siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/

/siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kaŋ⁴⁴/

/siaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/

/ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/sœːŋ⁵⁵ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/siɔŋ³³ kaŋ³³/

/siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/

/siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kaŋ⁴⁴/

/siaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/


烏江

/u⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/wuː⁵⁵ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/u⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/wuː⁵⁵ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

Wu River (a river in Guizhou, China), a tributary of the Yangtze


贛江

/kän⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/kɐm³³ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/kam²¹⁻⁵³ kaŋ⁴⁴/

/kam⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ kaŋ³³/

/kam²¹⁻⁵³ kaŋ⁴⁴/

/kam¹¹⁻⁵³ kaŋ⁴⁴/

/kam²¹⁻⁴¹ kaŋ⁴⁴/

/kän⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/kɐm³³ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/kam²¹⁻⁵³ kaŋ⁴⁴/

/kam⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ kaŋ³³/

/kam²¹⁻⁵³ kaŋ⁴⁴/

/kam¹¹⁻⁵³ kaŋ⁴⁴/

/kam²¹⁻⁴¹ kaŋ⁴⁴/


泗水

/sz̩⁵¹ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/siː³³ sɵy̯³⁵/

/sz̩⁵¹ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/siː³³ sɵy̯³⁵/


圖們

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (圖們):
* → Korean: 도문(圖們) (Domun)

→ English: Tumen, T'u-men

→ Korean: 투먼 (Tumeon)

/tʰu³⁵ mən³⁵/

/tʰu³⁵ mən³⁵/

Short for Manchu ᡨᡠᠮᡝᠨ
ᠰᡝᡴᡳᠶᡝᠨ (tumen sekiyen, “ten thousand + river source”). Related to Chinese 萬／万 (wàn, “ten thousand”); see there for more.

bor

ᡨᡠᠮᡝᠨ ᠰᡝᡴᡳᠶᡝᠨ

(～江) Tumen, Tuman (a river forming part of the border between Jilin, China and North Korea, and the border between Rasŏn, North Korea and Khasansky district, Primorsky Krai, Russia)


塔里木

/tʰä²¹⁴⁻³⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu⁵¹/

/tʰaːp̚³ lei̯¹³ mʊk̚²/

/tʰa(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ li⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bɔk̚⁴/

/tʰa(ʔ)⁵ li⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ bɔk̚²⁴/

/tʰa(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ li⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bɔk̚¹²¹/

/tʰa(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ li⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bɔk̚⁴/

/tʰa(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ li⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ bɔk̚⁴/

/tʰä²¹⁴⁻³⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu⁵¹/

/tʰaːp̚³ lei̯¹³ mʊk̚²/

/tʰa(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ li⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bɔk̚⁴/

/tʰa(ʔ)⁵ li⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ bɔk̚²⁴/

/tʰa(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ li⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bɔk̚¹²¹/

/tʰa(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ li⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bɔk̚⁴/

/tʰa(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ li⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ bɔk̚⁴/

(～河) Tarim River (a river in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China)


雅魯藏布

ㄧㄚˇ ㄌㄨˇ ㄗㄤˋ ㄅㄨˋ

ㄧㄚˇ ㄌㄨˇ ㄗㄤˋ ㄅㄨˋ

/jä²¹⁴⁻³⁵ lu²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡sɑŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ pu⁵¹/

/ŋaː¹³ lou̯¹³ t͡sɔːŋ²² pou̯³³/

/jä²¹⁴⁻³⁵ lu²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡sɑŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ pu⁵¹/

/ŋaː¹³ lou̯¹³ t͡sɔːŋ²² pou̯³³/

Borrowed from Tibetan ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ (yar klungs gtsang po).

ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ

(～江) Yarlung Tsangpo (a river in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China)


閩江

/min²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/min³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/mɐn¹³ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/maiŋ³³ kɔŋ⁵⁴/

/miŋ⁵³⁻⁵⁵ ⁽ᵏ⁻⁾ŋøyŋ⁵⁵/

/ban²⁴⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/

/bin²⁴⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/

/min²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/min³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/mɐn¹³ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/maiŋ³³ kɔŋ⁵⁴/

/miŋ⁵³⁻⁵⁵ ⁽ᵏ⁻⁾ŋøyŋ⁵⁵/

/ban²⁴⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/

/bin²⁴⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/


Pearl River

Calque of Chinese 珠江 (literally “pearl river”).

Pirates have of late become so bold and murderous in their attacks upon the small sailing craft found in the delta of the Pearl river, and the islands interjacent, as to arouse the Chinese government to take strong measures to suppress and disperse them.

1843 January, “Journal of Occurrences : dispatches from Kiying : arrival of I'lipu ; shipwrecked Japanese”, in The Chinese Repository, volume XII, number 1, Canton, page 56:

The task of directing thousands of pushcarts and tiny handicraft shops and millions of tiny farms and of controlling the flow of crucial supplies created headaches for officials everywhere and the Pearl River Delta area was justly famous for the flowering of tiny enterprises.

1969, Ezra Vogel, Canton under Communism: Programs and Politics in a Provincial Capital 1949-1968, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 132:

A Chinese-language broadcast from Moscow said the Tienanmen crowds were indeed against Mao but the burning of vehicles and building was started by the Maoists to provide themselves with excuses for stepped-up suppression.
We don’t know whether this was the case, but we have learned that some 50,000 Peiping students have been sent to rural and frontier areas since the incident, that corpses have been floating down the Pearl River from Canton, and that the Maoists have been crying out savagely.

1976 April 25, L. Chen, “Mao's word is unanimous vote?”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVII, number 16, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

Debt-laden real estate developer China Evergrande (3333.HK) has resumed construction of 63 projects in the southern Pearl River delta, a regional subsidiary said on Friday.

2021 November 19, “China Evergrande resumes construction on 63 projects in Pearl River delta”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-11-19:


Shu

From romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 沭 (Shù).


瑪納斯

Borrowed from Manchu ᠮᠠᠨᠠᠰ (manas), from Written Oirat ᡏᠠᠨᠠᠰ (manas, “patroller”); compare Mongolian ᠮᠠᠨᠠᠬᠤ (manaqu), ᠮᠠᠨᠠᠭᠠ (manag-a, “patrol”).

der

/mä²¹⁴⁻²¹ nä⁵¹ sz̩⁵⁵/

/maː¹³ naːp̚² siː⁵⁵/

/mä²¹⁴⁻²¹ nä⁵¹ sz̩⁵⁵/

/maː¹³ naːp̚² siː⁵⁵/

(～河) Manasi River (a river in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China)


北江

/peɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/pɐk̚⁵ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/peɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/pɐk̚⁵ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/


滹沱河

/xu⁵⁵ tʰu̯ɔ³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/xu⁵⁵ tʰu̯ɔ³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

Hutuo River (a river in Shanxi and Hebei, China)


灕江

/li³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/lei̯²¹ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/li²⁴⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/

/li²⁴⁻²² kaŋ³³/

/li¹³⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/

/li²⁴⁻¹¹ kaŋ⁴⁴/

/li²³⁻³³ kaŋ⁴⁴/

/li³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/lei̯²¹ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/li²⁴⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/

/li²⁴⁻²² kaŋ³³/

/li¹³⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/

/li²⁴⁻¹¹ kaŋ⁴⁴/

/li²³⁻³³ kaŋ⁴⁴/

Li River (a river in the Guangxi autonomous region)


江淮

/t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ xu̯aɪ̯³⁵/

/kɔːŋ⁵⁵ waːi̯²¹/

/kɑ̃⁵⁵ ɦua²¹/

/t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ xu̯aɪ̯³⁵/

/kɔːŋ⁵⁵ waːi̯²¹/

/kɑ̃⁵⁵ ɦua²¹/


Huai River

Partial calque from Mandarin 淮河 (Huái Hé).

The Huai river and the sea formed the boundaries of Yangchow.

1895, Herbert J. Allen, “Ssŭma Chʻien's Historical Records”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 97:

In other sectors of our national life, giant and fundamental solutions have been undertaken for age-old problems, such as the floods with which the Huai river has plagued our people for thirty centuries.

1952 January-February, Soong Ching Ling, “Welfare Work and World Peace”, in China Reconstructs, volume 1, number 1, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

Those "counterrevolutionaries" who were not executed were subjected to "reform through labor," a euphemism for slave labor, and participated in the intensive work which began on railway and road construction and water conservation schemes. The most important of the latter was the vaunted Huai River flood control project, which has been the subject of praise in all the accounts of fellow travelers who have visited China.

1955, Richard L. Walker, China Under Communism: The First Five Years, New Haven: Yale University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12:

In 1938 the great stream was deflected to the south by the Chinese in a misplaced effort to delay the advance of Japanese forces moving southward from T'ien-ching (Tientsin) and Pei-ching (Peking); and it flowed southeastward into the Huai river system and thence through a series of lakes and the Grand Canal down into the Yangtze drainage area.

1969, Joseph Kitagawa, editor, Understanding Modern China, Quadrangle Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 49:

It’s now called Huaihai Road, which commemorates the second great campaign of 1949, when Mao’s soldiers advanced from the Huai River to the sea, putting them in position to take Shanghai.

2011, Lisa See, Dreams of Joy, Oxford: ISIS Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 157:

The creek connects the Xi River to factories along the Huai River, but it’s too shallow for large boats to navigate.

2013, Ma Jian, translated by Flora Drew, The Dark Road, Penguin Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 152:

China on Sunday raised the flood alert level in the Huai River region in the country’s east to Level II from Level III, the second highest on its four-tier scale, after days of torrential downpours and amid expectations of further heavy rainfall.
Ten reservoirs on the Huai River have seen water levels exceeding warning levels by as much as 6.85 metres, according to the Huaihe River Commission of China’s Ministry of Water Resources.
The 1,000km (620 mile) Huai River flows through major agriculture and manufacturing hubs in Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces.

2020 July 19, Muyu Xu, Xu Jing, Tom Daly, “China raises flood alert levels along Huai River”, in Lincoln Feast, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2020-07-19, Environment:

A major river in central China, now a tributary of the Yangtze.


沙河

/saː⁵⁵ hɔː²¹/

/saː⁵⁵ hɔː²¹⁻³⁵/

/saː⁵⁵ hɔː²¹/

/saː⁵⁵ hɔː²¹⁻³⁵/

(～街道) Shahe Subdistrict (various subdistricts in China)

(specifically) Shahe Subdistrict (a subdistrict of Guangzhou)

(～鎮) Shahe Town (various towns in China)

Sha River; Sandy River (various rivers in China)


布拉馬普特拉河

Bùlāmǎpǔtèlā Hé

ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄚ ㄇㄚˇ ㄆㄨˇ ㄊㄜˋ ㄌㄚ ㄏㄜˊ

ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄚ ㄇㄚˇ ㄆㄨˇ ㄊㄜˋ ㄌㄚ ㄏㄜˊ

Буламапутэла Хэ

/pu⁵¹ lä⁵⁵ mä²¹⁴⁻³⁵ pʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʰɤ⁵¹ lä⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵/


晉江

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (晉江):
* → Vietnamese: Tấn Giang (晉江)

/t͡ɕin⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡sɵn³³ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡siŋ²¹³⁻⁵⁵ ⁽ᵏ⁻⁾ŋouŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡sin²¹⁻⁵³ kaŋ⁴⁴/

/t͡sin⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ kaŋ³³/

/t͡sin²¹⁻⁵³ kaŋ⁴⁴/

/t͡sin¹¹⁻⁵³ kaŋ⁴⁴/

/t͡sin²¹⁻⁴¹ kaŋ⁴⁴/

/t͡siŋ²¹³⁻⁵⁵ kaŋ³³/

/t͡ɕin³³ kɑ̃⁴⁴/

/t͡ɕin⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡sɵn³³ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡siŋ²¹³⁻⁵⁵ ⁽ᵏ⁻⁾ŋouŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡sin²¹⁻⁵³ kaŋ⁴⁴/

/t͡sin⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ kaŋ³³/

/t͡sin²¹⁻⁵³ kaŋ⁴⁴/

/t͡sin¹¹⁻⁵³ kaŋ⁴⁴/

/t͡sin²¹⁻⁴¹ kaŋ⁴⁴/

/t͡siŋ²¹³⁻⁵⁵ kaŋ³³/

/t͡ɕin³³ kɑ̃⁴⁴/

Jin River (a river in southern Fujian, China)


Ussuri

This Nerchinsk Treaty, exacted literally at the cannon's mouth, was not only the first concluded between China and Russia, but the first between China and any foreign Power. It was essentially a boundary treaty, though free trade between the two countries was also provided for ; yet the Chinese made the fatal mistake of leaving the eastern frontier, beyond the line of the Ussuri, for future definition, their only excuse being ignorance of the country ; though the Ming Emperors Hun-wu (1368-98) and Yun-lo, in 1413, had sent expeditions to the lower Amoor ; built temples there ; and erected stone monuments, with inscriptions, that still exist.

1912 January, “Russo-Chinese Relations”, in The Edinburgh Review, volume CCXV, →OCLC, page 198:

In Beijing’s view, in the absence of an explicit treaty provision, the central line of the main channel—the Thalweg principle—provided a legal basis for delimiting the boundary in the two rivers. On this basis, Beijing claimed that 600 of the rivers’ 700 islands—including Zhenbao Island on the Ussuri River, just 180 miles southwest of an important Soviet city, Khabarovsk—belonged to the P.R.C.

1980, Melvin Gurton, Byong-Moo Hwang, China under Threat: The Politics of Strategy and Diplomacy, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 210:

In January 1969, Chinese and Soviet soldiers fought around Zhenbao Island in the Ussuri River.

2005, Michael P. Colaresi, “Climbing the Wall: The Sino-American Rivalry”, in Scare Tactics: The Politics of International Rivalry, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 202:

In 2008 Moscow ceded 174 square km (67 square miles) of land to Beijing on their shared border along the Ussuri and Amur Rivers, where the two powers exchanged fire in 1969, leaving nearly 60 dead.

2011 March 1, Thomas Grove, “Analysis: Russia turns military gaze east to counter China”, in Mark Trevelyan, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2017-08-19:

Since the Ussuri River border skirmishes that marked the Sino-Soviet split in the 1960s, the Kremlin has perceived its long border with China as a security challenge as much as a commercial opportunity.

2014 November 10, Andrew E. Kramer, “Gazprom Makes a New Gas Deal With China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-11-11, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS:

A river forming part of the border between Heilongjiang, China and Primorsky Krai and Khabarovsk Krai, Russia.


Žlutá řeka

Žlutá řeka (nominative singular)
Žluté řeky (nominative plural)
Žluté řeky (genitive singular)
Žlutých řek (genitive plural)
Žluté řece (dative singular)
Žlutým řekám (dative plural)
Žlutou řeku (accusative singular)
Žluté řeky (accusative plural)
Žlutá řeko (singular vocative)
Žluté řeky (plural vocative)
Žluté řece (locative singular)
Žlutých řekách (locative plural)
Žlutou řekou (instrumental singular)
Žlutými řekami (instrumental plural)

Yellow River, Huang He (a major river in northern China, passing through Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Shandong provinces as well as Ningxia and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regions)


Anning

THE second day after leaving Hui-li-chou we entered the valley of the Anning Ho, a grey, fast-flowing stream whose course runs parallel with the meridian like all the others of that interesting group of rivers between Assam and eastern Szechuan, the Irrawaddy, the Sal ween, the Mekong, the Yangtse, the Yalung. The Anning, the smallest of these, lies enclosed in a wilderness of tangled ranges, and its valley forms the shortest trade route between Szechuan and the Indo-Chinese peninsula.

1913, Elizabeth Kendall, “The Chien-ch'ang”, in A Wayfarer in China: Impressions of a Trip Across West China and Mongolia, Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, page 71:


九龍江

ㄐㄧㄡˇ ㄌㄨㄥˊ ㄐㄧㄤ

ㄐㄧㄡˇ ㄌㄨㄥˊ ㄐㄧㄤ

/t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ lʊŋ³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/kɐu̯³⁵ lʊŋ²¹ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ lʊŋ³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/kɐu̯³⁵ lʊŋ²¹ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

Sense #2 corresponds to Vietnamese sông Cửu Long (literally “Nine Dragons River”).

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Jiulong River (the largest river in southern Fujian, China)


黃浦

→ English: Huangpu, Whangpoo, Whang-poo

/xu̯ɑŋ³⁵ pʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/wɔːŋ²¹ pʰou̯³⁵/

/hɔŋ²⁴⁻²² pʰɔ⁵³/

/hɔŋ²⁴⁻²² pʰɔ⁵⁵⁴/

/hɔŋ¹³⁻²² pʰɔ⁵³/

/hɔŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ pʰɔ⁵³/

/hɔŋ²³⁻³³ pʰɔ⁴¹/

/ɦuɑ̃²² pʰu⁴⁴/

/xu̯ɑŋ³⁵ pʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/wɔːŋ²¹ pʰou̯³⁵/

/hɔŋ²⁴⁻²² pʰɔ⁵³/

/hɔŋ²⁴⁻²² pʰɔ⁵⁵⁴/

/hɔŋ¹³⁻²² pʰɔ⁵³/

/hɔŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ pʰɔ⁵³/

/hɔŋ²³⁻³³ pʰɔ⁴¹/

/ɦuɑ̃²² pʰu⁴⁴/

(～江) Huangpu River (a river in Shanghai, China; a tributary of the Yangtze)


Rzeka Żółta

Rzeka Żółta (nominative singular)
Rzeki Żółtej (genitive singular)
Rzece Żółtej (dative singular)
Rzekę Żółtą (accusative singular)
Rzeką Żółtą (instrumental singular)
Rzece Żółtej (locative singular)
Rzeko Żółta (singular vocative)

Literally, “Yellow River”. Calque of Chinese 黃河 /黄河 (Huáng Hé).


烏蘇里江

ㄨ ㄙㄨ ㄌㄧˇ ㄐㄧㄤ

ㄨ ㄙㄨ ㄌㄧˇ ㄐㄧㄤ

/u⁵⁵ su⁵⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/wuː⁵⁵ sou̯⁵⁵ lei̯¹³ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/u⁵⁵ su⁵⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/wuː⁵⁵ sou̯⁵⁵ lei̯¹³ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/


沱沱河

ㄊㄨㄛˊ ㄊㄨㄛˊ ㄏㄜˊ

ㄊㄨㄛˊ ㄊㄨㄛˊ ㄏㄜˊ

/tʰu̯ɔ³⁵ tʰu̯ɔ³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/tʰɔː²¹ tʰɔː²¹ hɔː²¹/

/tʰu̯ɔ³⁵ tʰu̯ɔ³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/tʰɔː²¹ tʰɔː²¹ hɔː²¹/

From Tibetan ཐོག་ཐོག་ཆུ (thog thog chu) (translating the last element ཆུ (chu)).


西河

(～鎮) Xihe (a town in Xiaonan district, Xiaogan, Hubei, China)


Iang-Tsé

Borrowed from French Yangtsé, from Mandarin 揚子 /扬子 (Yángzǐ), the former local name for a stretch of the Lower Yangtze.

Iangtsé (alternative)
Iang-tsé (alternative)
Iang-Tse (alternative)

dofí del Iang-tsé


秦淮河

ㄑㄧㄣˊ ㄏㄨㄞˊ ㄏㄜˊ

ㄑㄧㄣˊ ㄏㄨㄞˊ ㄏㄜˊ

/t͡ɕʰin³⁵ xu̯aɪ̯³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/t͡ɕʰin³⁵ xu̯aɪ̯³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

Qinhuai River (a river in Jiangsu, China)


汨羅江

ㄇㄧˋ ㄌㄨㄛˊ ㄐㄧㄤ

ㄇㄧˋ ㄌㄨㄛˊ ㄐㄧㄤ

/mi⁵¹ lu̯ɔ³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/mɪk̚² lɔː²¹ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/mi⁵¹ lu̯ɔ³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/mɪk̚² lɔː²¹ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/


汨羅江

ja-pos

汨(べき)羅(ら)江(こう) • (Bekirakō) ^(←べきらかう (Bekirakau)?)

汨羅江 (canonical)
Bekirakō (romanization)
Bekirakau (romanization)
べきらかう (hiragana historical)

1930, “青年日本の歌”:

汨羅の淵に波騒ぎ


永定

→ English: Engteng, Yongding, Yung-ting

/jʊŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ tiŋ⁵¹/

/wɪŋ¹³ tɪŋ²²/

/iɪŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tiɪŋ²²/

/ioŋ⁵²⁻³⁵ tĩã¹¹/

/jʊŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ tiŋ⁵¹/

/wɪŋ¹³ tɪŋ²²/

/iɪŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tiɪŋ²²/

/ioŋ⁵²⁻³⁵ tĩã¹¹/

Yongding (a river flowing through Shanxi, Hebei and Tianjin provinces, the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia, and the city of Beijing; it flows for 400 miles and empties into the Hai River)


汨羅

/mi⁵¹ lu̯ɔ³⁵/

/mɪk̚² lɔː²¹/

/mi⁵¹ lu̯ɔ³⁵/

/mɪk̚² lɔː²¹/

(～江) Miluo River (a river in Hunan, China)


汨羅

汨羅 (canonical)
Bekira (romanization)
べきら (hiragana historical)

汨羅の淵に波騒ぎ 巫山の雲は乱れ飛ぶ

bekira no fuchi ni nami sawagi fuzan no kumo wa midare tobu

Angry waves swell from the depths of the Miluo
Mount Wu's peak is hazy with swirling clouds

大辞林 w:ja:大辞林

short for 汨羅江 (Miluo River (a river in Hunan, China))


黃三角

ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄙㄢ ㄐㄧㄠˇ

ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄙㄢ ㄐㄧㄠˇ

Хуансаньцзяо

/xu̯ɑŋ³⁵ sän⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄙㄢ ㄐㄧㄠˇㄦ

хуансаньцзяор

/xu̯ɑŋ³⁵ sän⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯aʊ̯ɻʷ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/wɔːŋ²¹ saːm⁵⁵ kɔːk̚³/

/xu̯ɑŋ³⁵ sän⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/xu̯ɑŋ³⁵ sän⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯aʊ̯ɻʷ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/wɔːŋ²¹ saːm⁵⁵ kɔːk̚³/

黃河三角洲 黃河三角洲#Chinese

黄河三角洲 黄河三角洲#Chinese

short for 黃河三角洲／黄河三角洲 (Huánghé Sānjiǎozhōu, “Yellow River Delta”)


黃河三角洲

ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄏㄜˊ ㄙㄢ ㄐㄧㄠˇ ㄓㄡ

ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄏㄜˊ ㄙㄢ ㄐㄧㄠˇ ㄓㄡ

Хуанхэ Саньцзяочжоу

/xu̯ɑŋ³⁵ xɤ³⁵ sän⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯⁵⁵/

/wɔːŋ²¹ hɔː²¹ saːm⁵⁵ kɔːk̚³ t͡sɐu̯⁵⁵/

/wɔːŋ²¹ hɔː²¹ saːm⁵⁵ kɔːk̚³ t͡sɐu̯⁵⁵/


洋涇浜

English: Yangjingbang

French: Yangjingbang, Yang-King-Pang

/jɑŋ³⁵ t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵ pɑŋ⁵⁵/

/jœːŋ²¹ kɪŋ⁵⁵ pɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/ɦiã²² t͡ɕin⁵⁵ pã²¹/

/jɑŋ³⁵ t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵ pɑŋ⁵⁵/

/jœːŋ²¹ kɪŋ⁵⁵ pɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/ɦiã²² t͡ɕin⁵⁵ pã²¹/

延安東路 延安東路#Chinese

延安东路 延安东路#Chinese

Yangjingbang, a former tributary of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, now filled and known as Yan'an East Road (延安東路／延安东路)


額爾齊斯

/ˀɤ³⁵ ˀɤɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰi³⁵ sz̩⁵⁵/

/ŋaːk̚² jiː¹³ t͡sʰɐi̯²¹ siː⁵⁵/

/ˀɤ³⁵ ˀɤɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰi³⁵ sz̩⁵⁵/

/ŋaːk̚² jiː¹³ t͡sʰɐi̯²¹ siː⁵⁵/

Qing-era Mandarin transcription of Manchu ᡝᡵᠴᡳᠰ (Ercis), from Written Oirat ᡄᠷᡔᡅᠰ (Ercis), from Kipchak [Term?].

(～河) Irtysh (a river in Russia, China and Kazakhstan)


典農河

ㄉㄧㄢˇ ㄋㄨㄥˊ ㄏㄜˊ

ㄉㄧㄢˇ ㄋㄨㄥˊ ㄏㄜˊ

/ti̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ nʊŋ³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/tiːn³⁵ nʊŋ²¹ hɔː²¹/

/ti̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ nʊŋ³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/tiːn³⁵ nʊŋ²¹ hɔː²¹/

典農／典农 was the name of a nearby settlement during the Western Han dynasty. Renamed from the Islam-flavoured name 艾依河 (Àiyī Hé) in September 2018.

zh-l

艾依河 (Àiyī Hé)

Diannong River (a river in the Gansu autonomous region, China)


ᡝᡵᠴᡳᠰ

→ Chinese: 額爾齊斯 /额尔齐斯 (É'ěrqísī)

Borrowed from Mongolian ᠡᠷᠴᠢᠰ (erčis), from Written Oirat ᡄᠷᡔᡅᠰ (ercis).

Irtysh (a river in China, Kazakhstan and Russia)


Yangtsé

Yangtze (a major river in China, the third-longest river in the world)


錢塘江

ㄑㄧㄢˊ ㄊㄤˊ ㄐㄧㄤ

ㄑㄧㄢˊ ㄊㄤˊ ㄐㄧㄤ

Цяньтан Цзян

/t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵ tʰɑŋ³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰiːn²¹ tʰɔːŋ²¹ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵ tʰɑŋ³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰiːn²¹ tʰɔːŋ²¹ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/


紅水河

ㄏㄨㄥˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄏㄜˊ

ㄏㄨㄥˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄏㄜˊ

/xʊŋ³⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xɤ³⁵/

/hʊŋ²¹ sɵy̯³⁵ hɔː²¹/

/xʊŋ³⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xɤ³⁵/

/hʊŋ²¹ sɵy̯³⁵ hɔː²¹/

Hongshui River (a river in the Guangxi autonomous region, China)


曲江

/t͡ɕʰy⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/kʰʊk̚⁵ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡ɕʰy⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/kʰʊk̚⁵ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

Qu River (a tributary of the Nanpan River in Yunnan, China)


漣水

/li̯ɛn³⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/liːn²¹ sɵy̯³⁵/

/li̯ɛn³⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/liːn²¹ sɵy̯³⁵/


淦水

/kän⁵¹ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/kɐm³³ sɵy̯³⁵/

/kän⁵¹ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/kɐm³³ sɵy̯³⁵/


邕江

/jʊŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/jʊŋ⁵⁵ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/jʊŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/jʊŋ⁵⁵ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

Yong River (river in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China)


萬泉河

ㄨㄢˋ ㄑㄩㄢˊ ㄏㄜˊ

ㄨㄢˋ ㄑㄩㄢˊ ㄏㄜˊ

/wän⁵¹ t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/maːn¹³ t͡sʰyːn²¹ hɔː²¹/

/wän⁵¹ t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/maːn¹³ t͡sʰyːn²¹ hɔː²¹/

Wanquan River (a river in Hainan, China)

Wanquan River (a river in Beijing, China)


吳淞江

/u³⁵ sʊŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/ŋ̍²¹ sʊŋ⁵⁵ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/ɦu²² soŋ⁵⁵ kɑ̃²¹/

/u³⁵ sʊŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/ŋ̍²¹ sʊŋ⁵⁵ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/ɦu²² soŋ⁵⁵ kɑ̃²¹/


蘇州河

/su⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/sou̯⁵⁵ t͡sɐu̯⁵⁵ hɔː²¹/

/su⁵⁵ t͡sɤ³³ ɦu²¹/

/su⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/sou̯⁵⁵ t͡sɐu̯⁵⁵ hɔː²¹/

/su⁵⁵ t͡sɤ³³ ɦu²¹/

Calque of English Soochow Creek, the name given by foreigners as the Wusong River connected Shanghai and Suzhou. The name 蘇州河 is predominantly used in Shanghai.

Wusong River; Suzhou Creek (river in China)


拉薩河

/lä⁵⁵ sä⁵¹ xɤ³⁵/

/laːi̯⁵⁵ saːt̚³ hɔː²¹/

/lä⁵⁵ sä⁵¹ xɤ³⁵/

/laːi̯⁵⁵ saːt̚³ hɔː²¹/

Lhasa River (a river in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China)


ᠰᠠᡥᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠨ ᡠᠯᠠ

ᠰᠠᡥᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠨ (sahaliyan, “black”) + ᡠᠯᠠ (ula, “river”), literally “black river”.

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Provinces – ᡤᠣᠯᠣ: ᠠᠨᡥᡡᡳ · ᡶᡠᡤᡳᠶᠠᠨ · ᡤᡠᠸᠠᠩᡩᡠᠩ · ᡤᠠᠨᠰᡠ · ᡤᡠᡳᠵᡝᠣ · ᡥᠣᠨᠠᠨ · ᡥᡡᠪᡝ · ᡥᠣᠪᡝ · ᡥᠠᡳᠨᠠᠨ · ᠰᠠᡥᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠨᡠᠯᠠ · ᡥᡡᠨᠠᠨ · ᡤᡳᡵᡳᠨ · ᡤᡳᠶᠠᠩᠰᡠ · ᡤᡳᠶᠠᠩᠰᡳ · ᠯᡳᠶᠣᡠᠨᡳᠩ · ᡥᡠᡥᡠᠨᠣᠣᡵ · ᠰᠶᠴᡠᠸᠠᠨ · ᡧᠠᠨᡩᡠᠩ · ᡧᠠᠨᠰᡳ · ᠰᠠᠨᠰᡳ · ᡨᠠᡳᠸᠠᠨ · ᠶᡡᠨᠨᠠᠨ · ᠵᡝᡤᡳᠶᠠᠩ

Autonomous regions – ᠪᡝᠶᡝᡩᠠᠰᠠᠩᡤᠠᡤᠣᠯᠣ: ᡤᡠᠸᠠᠩᠰᡳ · ᡩᠣᡵᡤᡳᠮᠣᠩᡤᠣ · ᠨᡳᠩᡥᡳᠠ · ᠸᠠᡵᡤᡳᡩᡯᠠᠩ · ᡳᠴᡝᠵᡝᠴᡝᠨ

Municipalities – ᡥᠣᡨᠣᠨ: ᠪᡝᡤᡳᠩ · ᡨᡳᠶᠠᠨᠵᡳᠨ · ᡧᠠᠩᡥᠠᡳ · ᠴᡠᠩᡴᡳᠩ

Amur River, Heilong Jiang (a major river in the Far East of Russia and Northeastern China)


ᡥᡡᠸᠠᠩ ᡥᠣ ᠪᡳᡵᠠ

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ᡥᠣ
ᠪᡳᡵᠠ • (hūwang ho bira)

From Chinese 黃河 /黄河 (Huáng Hé) and ᠪᡳᡵᠠ (bira, “river”).

Yellow River, Huang He (a major river in northern China, passing through Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Shandong provinces as well as Ningxia and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regions)


ᡤᠣᠯᠮᡳᠨ ᡠᠯᠠ

ᡤᠣᠯᠮᡳᠨ (golmin, “long”) + ᡠᠯᠠ (ula, “river”). Calque of Chinese 長江 /长江 (Cháng Jiāng, “Yangtze”, literally “long river”).

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Yangtze; Chang Jiang (the longest river in China)


涇河

/t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵/


當曲

/tɑŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰy⁵⁵/

/tɑŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰy⁵⁵/

From Tibetan འདམ་ཆུ ('dam chu, literally “marshy river”).


通天河

/tʰʊŋ⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/tʰʊŋ⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵/


格爾木河

ㄍㄜˊ ㄦˇ ㄇㄨˋ ㄏㄜˊ

ㄍㄜˊ ㄦˇ ㄇㄨˋ ㄏㄜˊ

/kɤ³⁵ ˀɤɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu⁵¹ xɤ³⁵/

/kɤ³⁵ ˀɤɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu⁵¹ xɤ³⁵/


Hoàng Hà

[hwaːŋ˨˩ haː˨˩]

[hwaːŋ˦˩ haː˦˩]

[waːŋ˨˩ haː˨˩]


玉龍喀什

ㄩˋ ㄌㄨㄥˊ ㄎㄚ ㄕˊ

ㄩˋ ㄌㄨㄥˊ ㄎㄚ ㄕˊ

/y⁵¹ lʊŋ³⁵ kʰä⁵⁵ ʂʐ̩³⁵/

/y⁵¹ lʊŋ³⁵ kʰä⁵⁵ ʂʐ̩³⁵/

(～河) White Jade River (a river in Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China)


喀拉喀什

/kʰä⁵⁵ lä⁵⁵ kʰä⁵⁵ ʂʐ̩³⁵/

/kʰä⁵⁵ lä⁵⁵ kʰä⁵⁵ ʂʐ̩³⁵/

Borrowed from Uyghur قاراقاش (qaraqash).

(～河) Karakash River (a river in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China)


Ертіс

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Ертіс • (Ertıs)

Irtysh (a river in China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Russia)

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呼蘭河

/xu⁵⁵ län³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/fuː⁵⁵ laːn²¹ hɔː²¹/

/xu⁵⁵ län³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/fuː⁵⁵ laːn²¹ hɔː²¹/

Hulan River (river in Heilongjiang Province, China)


輝發河

/xu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵ fä⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/fɐi̯⁵⁵ faːt̚³ hɔː²¹/

/xu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵ fä⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/fɐi̯⁵⁵ faːt̚³ hɔː²¹/

Huifa River (a river in northeast China)


淝水

/feɪ̯³⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/feɪ̯³⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

淝水之戰

淝水之战

(historical) Fei River (a river in China)


Іле

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Ili (a prefecture of the Xinjiang autonomous region, China)


Whangpoo

Anglicization of Shanghainese 黃浦 (hhuaan phu).

Firing by Japanese warships upon the Chinese Woosung forts, at the mouth of the Whangpoo River twenty miles below Shanghai, began at 11:30 A.M. today, according to the Japanese Consulate, which charges that guns of the forts opened fire first, bombarding passing Japanese warships.

1932 February 4 [1932 February 3], “Chinese Accused of Firing First.; JAPANESE ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE FORTS”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-07, page 1:

Some large vessels that do not wish to berth in the Whangpoo anchor in the roadstead off the entrance to the river and discharge into lighters. The greater number of ocean-going vessels, however, proceed up the Whangpoo to Shanghai.

1940, Commerce Reports, →OCLC, page 230:

Shanghai does not escape the problems besetting delta cities. It lies about 14 mi. (23 km.) I above the mouth of the Whangpoo River (Huang-p'u Chiang), a small tributary of the Yangtze near its estuary. Daily, rising tide water from the Pacific shunts Yangtze River water up the Whangpoo.

1968, “SHANGHAI (SHANG-HAI)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 20, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 345, column 1:


Blue River

The rebels put the imperial garrisons to the sword—fifty thousand headless bodies were floating in the Blue River when Nanking fell.

1977 [1973], Lucien Bodard, translated by Barbara Bray, The French Consul, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 51:


涪江

/fu³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/fu³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

Fu River (a river in Sichuan and Chongqing, China)


柳江

/li̯oʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/lɐu̯¹³ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/li̯oʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/lɐu̯¹³ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

Liu River (a river in Guizhou and Guangxi autonomous region, China)


潯江

/ɕyn³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰɐm²¹ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/ɕyn³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰɐm²¹ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/


右江

/joʊ̯⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/jɐu̯²² kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/joʊ̯⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/jɐu̯²² kɔːŋ⁵⁵/


左江

/t͡su̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡sɔː³⁵ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡su̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡sɔː³⁵ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/


Mulan

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Mulan (countable and uncountable, plural Mulans)

Mulans (plural)
Mu-lan (alternative)
Mu-Lan (alternative)
Mu Lan (alternative)

From Mandarin 木蘭／木兰 (Mùlán, literally “magnolia”).

THE FOLLOWING TEXT commemorates the reconstruction and expansion of the main temple of a local cult in Putian District, Fujian Province, located on China’s southeast coast. The god, known by the time the inscription was composed in 1138 as the Duke of Manifest Kindness (Xianhui hou), was the proprietary deity of a prominent local kin group, the Fang of Baidu, a small village which lay about three miles east of Putian city in the hills edging the fertile flood plain of the Mulan River. Like many prominent kin groups of the area, the Fang had abandoned their original homes, which had been in the hinterland behind Hangzhou, and settled in Putian in the late 800s, a time of widespread unrest that accompanied the fall of the Tang dynasty (618-907).

2005, “Fang Lüe, "Inscription for the Temple of Auspicious Response"”, in Victor H. Mair, Nancy S. Steinhardt, Paul R. Goldin, editors, Hawaiʻi Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 392:

Any of several places in China:
A river in Fujian, China.


賀江

/xɤ⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/hɔː²² kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/xɤ⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/hɔː²² kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

He River (a river in Guangxi and Guangdong, China)


鬱江

/y⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/wɐt̚⁵ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/y⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/wɐt̚⁵ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

Yu River (a river in the Guangxi autonomous region, China)

Yu River (a river in Chongqing and Hebei, China)


北盤江

/peɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ pʰän³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/pɐk̚⁵ pʰuːn²¹ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/peɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ pʰän³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/pɐk̚⁵ pʰuːn²¹ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

Beipan River (a river in Yunnan and Guizhou, China)


南盤江

Наньпаньцзян

/nän³⁵ pʰän³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/naːm²¹ pʰuːn²¹ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/nän³⁵ pʰän³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/naːm²¹ pʰuːn²¹ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

Nanpan River (a river in Yunnan and Guizhou, China)


松阿察河

ㄙㄨㄥ ㄚ ㄔㄚˊ ㄏㄜˊ

ㄙㄨㄥ ㄚ ㄔㄚˊ ㄏㄜˊ

/sʊŋ⁵⁵ ˀä⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰä³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/sʊŋ⁵⁵ ˀä⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰä³⁵ xɤ³⁵/


呼瑪河

/xu⁵⁵ mä²¹⁴⁻²¹ xɤ³⁵/

/xu⁵⁵ mä²¹⁴⁻²¹ xɤ³⁵/

Huma River (a tributary of the Amur River, Heilongjiang Province, China)


Black River

Specific data on the flow of the Red River near Hanoi was impossible to obtain but last month Le Monde, the Paris newspaper, published a dispatch predicting that the flow of the Black River, a main tributary, would reach 32,500 cubic meters a second at Sontay, about 25 miles northwest of Hanoi (a cubic meter is about 35 cubic feet).

1972 July 14, Seymour M. Hersh, “Dikes in Hanoi Area Represent 2,000‐Year Effort to Tame Rivers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-02-24:

The Black River Watershed is a tributary system of the Red River. Like the Red River, the Black River has its source in China and flows out through Vietnam.

1996, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Thai Studies: Theme 2, Cultural crisis and the Thai capitalist transformation, →OCLC, page 131:

The Upper Red River veers northwards to China, but we take a sneaky left-hand turn down the Da River (Black River).

2017 July 1, Colin Hinshelwood, “Cruise Vietnam’s scenic and lush Red River”, in CNN, archived from the original on 2017-06-25:


ᡨᡠᠮᡝᠨ ᡠᠯᠠ

Tumen (a river forming part of the border between Jilin, China and North Korea, and the border between Rasŏn, North Korea and Khasansky district, Primorsky Krai, Russia)


두만강

Modern Korean reading of Hanja 豆滿江, presumably from Middle Korean 투먼〮가ᇰ (Thwùmén-kàng), from Jurchen tumən (“ten thousand”) + 강(江) (gang, “river”).


梅江

/meɪ̯³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/muːi̯²¹ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/meɪ̯³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/muːi̯²¹ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

Mei River (a tributary river of the Han River in eastern Guangdong, China)

Mei River (a tributary river of the Meihua River in western Guangdong, China)


和田河

ㄏㄜˊ ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄏㄜˊ

ㄏㄜˊ ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄏㄜˊ

/xɤ³⁵ tʰi̯ɛn³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/wɔː²¹ tʰiːn²¹ hɔː²¹/

/xɤ³⁵ tʰi̯ɛn³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/wɔː²¹ tʰiːn²¹ hɔː²¹/

Hotan River (a river in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China)


和闐河

ㄏㄜˊ ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄏㄜˊ

ㄏㄜˊ ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄏㄜˊ

/xɤ³⁵ tʰi̯ɛn³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/wɔː²¹ tʰiːn²¹ hɔː²¹/

/xɤ³⁵ tʰi̯ɛn³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/wɔː²¹ tʰiːn²¹ hɔː²¹/

Old name for 和田河 (Hétiánhé, “Hotan River (a river in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China)”).


練江

/li̯ɛn⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/liːn²² kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/li̯ɛn⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/liːn²² kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

Lian River (a river in Guangdong, China)


榕江

/ʐʊŋ³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/jʊŋ²¹ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/ioŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ kaŋ³³/

/ʐʊŋ³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/jʊŋ²¹ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/ioŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ kaŋ³³/

Rong River (a river in Guangdong, China)


Hongkou

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 虹口 (Hóngkǒu, literally “Rainbow Mouth”), a variation of earlier 洪口 (Hóngkǒu, literally “Flood Mouth”).

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There were also public mess halls in Shanghai, but they were mostly managed by the people. Under the disguise of "cultural revolution", some inhabitants' service establishments appeared in the districts around Chu's Family Bay. With the help of the old street inhabitants' committee, the one thousand odd households in Lungchang-li and Hungkou District were also organized and mess halls, factories, nurseries and spare-time middle-schools were set up. But they were not as progressive in scale and in nature as those in Peking and Tientsin.¹³

[1962, Shih Ch'eng-chih, “Types of Experimental Urban Communes”, in Urban Commune Experiments Communist China, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, published 1974, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 54:

On Tuesday, Netanyahu and his wife toured Shanghai’s Ohel Moshe synagogue in the Hongkou district that was home to many of the 18,000 Jews granted refuge in Shanghai from the horrors of Nazi persecution.

2013 May 7, “Netanyahu: Jewish people capable of own defense”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-05-25:


虹口

→ English: Hongkew, Hongkou

/xʊŋ³⁵ kʰoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/hʊŋ²¹ hɐu̯³⁵/

/ɦoŋ²² kʰɤ⁴⁴/

/xʊŋ³⁵ kʰoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/hʊŋ²¹ hɐu̯³⁵/

/ɦoŋ²² kʰɤ⁴⁴/

(～港) Hongkou Creek (a river in Shanghai, China)


黔江

/t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/kʰiːm²¹ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/kʰiːm²¹ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

Qian River (a tributary of the Yu River in Guangxi autonomous region, China; part of the Xi River system)


獅泉河

/ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/siː⁵⁵ t͡sʰyːn²¹ hɔː²¹/

/ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/siː⁵⁵ t͡sʰyːn²¹ hɔː²¹/

Calque of Tibetan སེང་གེ་ཁ་འབབ (seng ge kha 'bab).

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སེང་གེ་ཁ་འབབ

Sênggê Zangbo (a river in Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China; the upper course of the Indus River)


象泉河

ㄒㄧㄤˋ ㄑㄩㄢˊ ㄏㄜˊ

ㄒㄧㄤˋ ㄑㄩㄢˊ ㄏㄜˊ

/ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵¹ t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/t͡sœːŋ²² t͡sʰyːn²¹ hɔː²¹/

/ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵¹ t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/t͡sœːŋ²² t͡sʰyːn²¹ hɔː²¹/

Calque of Tibetan གླང་ཆེན་གཙང་པོ (glang chen gtsang po).

གླང་ཆེན་གཙང་པོ

Langqên Zangbo (a river, the upper course of the Sutlej River in Ngari prefecture, Tibet autonomous region, China)


年楚河

ㄋㄧㄢˊ ㄔㄨˇ ㄏㄜˊ

ㄋㄧㄢˊ ㄔㄨˇ ㄏㄜˊ

/ni̯ɛn³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹ xɤ³⁵/

/niːn²¹ t͡sʰɔː³⁵ hɔː²¹/

/ni̯ɛn³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹ xɤ³⁵/

/niːn²¹ t͡sʰɔː³⁵ hɔː²¹/

From Tibetan མྱང་ཆུ (myang chu) + 河 (hé, “river”).

Nyang Qu (a tributary of the Yarlung Tsangpo in Shigatse, Tibet autonomous region, China)


ᡥᡠᠨᠴᡠᠨ

desc

→ Chinese: 琿春 /珲春 (Húnchūn) (Mandarin transcription)

→ English: Huncun (transliteration)


Yangzi Jiang

Yang-Tsze-Kiang (alternative obsolete)
Yang Tse Kiang (alternative dated)

synonym of Yangtsé: Yangtze (a major river in China)


Huangpu

Huangpu
Kingdom of Chu
Lord Chunshen
Songjiang
Warring States Era

The atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 黃浦 /黄浦 (Huángpǔ, literally “Yellow Bank”), a clipping of 黃歇浦 /黄歇浦 (Huáng Xiē pǔ, literally “Huang Xie Bank”), named in honor of Lord Chunshen, a statesman of the Kingdom of Chu during the Warring States Era closely associated with Songjiang and Shanghai.

der

Whangpoo (alternative dated)
Whampoa (alternative)

Shang-hai, situated 31°14'7" lat. N. and 121029' long. E., stretches nearly 10 miles along the l. bank of the Huang-p’u, on the opposite bank of which stands the suburb of P’u-tung.

[1912, “Chiang-su”, in Northern China, The Valley of the Blue River, Korea, Hachette & Company, →OCLC, page 293:

In 1864, Sir McDonald Stephenson, an eminent British engineer, arrived in China to impress the advantages of railways on China, but his scheme was pigeonholed. The next scheme was the Woosung Railway, from Shanghai on the Huangpu river to Woosung at its mouth, a distance of 12 miles.

1915 October 1, Charles Davis Jameson, “The Status of Chinese Railways”, in Railway Age Gazette, volume 59, number 14, New York, page 602, column 1:

The first mill to send its Chinese workers home was the Nikka Number 8 Mill down the Huangp’u River from Shanghai at its Wusung entry to the vast Yangtze. The neighboring Wing On mill under Chinese owners continued to hum. There at Wusung Port was also the Chinese fortress guarding both the entrance to Shanghai’s waterway and the arterial Yangtze.

[2001, Donald A. Jordan, “The Last Straw at Shanghai”, in China's Trial by Fire: The Shanghai War of 1932, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 19:

Lockdowns for the city's residents east of the Huangpu river began on March 28, while lockdowns for the rest of the city started on April 1. The exercise originally was intended to last five days.

2022 April 7, Brenda Goh, David Kirton, “Shanghai vows to improve food deliveries as discontent grows over COVID curbs”, in Gerry Doyle, Kim Coghill, Nick Macfie, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-04-08:

A tributary of the Yangtze in Shanghai Municipality in China.


Huangpu

The atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 黃埔 /黄埔 (Huángpǔ).

An explosion hit an oil refinery in Guangzhou, in the Guangdong province in South China early on Thursday, triggering a fire, the Hong Kong Free Press reported.
According to the report, the blast occurred in an industrial zone in Huangpu district and no casualties have been reported.

2015 December 23, Apeksha Nair, “Explosion hits Guangzhou oil refinery - media”, in Sandra Maler, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-03-11, World News:

A district of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.


Yangjingbang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 洋涇浜 /洋泾浜 (Yángjīngbāng).

Some of the famous inns like the Taian Inn and the Qianyi Inn located in the Jiaji Long (lane) to the north of Yangjingbang (the present Yanan Road, East) started their business in a lane.

1985, Jia You, “GENERAL ASPECTS OF STREET-LANES IN SHANGHAI”, in Min Dayong, transl., Anecdotes of Old Shanghai, 1st edition, Shanghai Cultural Publishing House, →OCLC, page 137:

The French Concession lay between the walled Chinese city and Yang-ching-pang Creek, later filled in and called Edward VII Avenue. The British Settlement stretched from Yang-ching-pang to Soochow Creek while the American settlement consisted of a piece of land fronting the river to the north-east of Soochow Creek.

[1990, Harriet Sergeant, “A Simple Equation – The Rise of a Great City”, in Shanghai: Collision Point of Cultures, 1918-1939, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18:

Rows of simply constructed, single-story wooden houses appeared literally overnight along the Bund, in the northwest part of the British Settlement, as well as on the banks of Yangjingbang, the creek that separated the British and French settlements.

1999, Hanchao Lu, “Going to Shanghai”, in Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century, University of California Press, published 2004, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 33:

By 1848 this boundary had been pushed westwards to today’s Central Tibet Road (formerly known as Defence Creek) and bounded by Suzhou Creek to the north and by the Yangkingpang Creek (today’s East Yan’an Road) to the south. The British were adamant about keeping their +70-acre area free of Chinese residents.

[2013, Paul Mooney, Peter Hibbard, “Getting Around Shanghai”, in Beijing & Shanghai: China's Hottest Cities, Odyssey Books & Maps, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 338:

(historical) A former tributary of the Huangpu, Shanghai, China.


Yangjingbang

(historical) the Yangjingbang (former river in Shanghai)


Songhua

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of 松花 (sōnghuā) in 松花江 (Sōnghuā Jiāng).

The water quality of the Songhua River (Northeast China) was of concern, especially in the 1980s and early 1990s, and there were many studies carried out on this aspect. However, only one or several independent water quality indices were used to consider the effects of pollutants on the water quality, for instance, heavy metal and toxic organic pollutants. The combined effects of multiple indices were seldom studied. In this article, based on the environmental monitoring data, the water quality of the Songhua River was analyzed using factor analysis, which comprehensively considered six indices of water quality of each monitoring section.

2003 April, Yu, S. et al., “Factor Analysis and Dynamics of Water Quality of the Songhua River, Northeast China”, in Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, volume 144, number 1, archived from the original on 2024-10-17, pages 159–169:

The reports, including some from the official Xinhua news agency, suggested that officials here and in Jilin Province, where the disaster occurred 380 kilometers, or 235 miles, up the Songhua River, lied or told only part of the story until they had no choice but to admit the truth.[…]
"They were trying to lie and get by," said Qi Guangzhong, 64, as he walked along the Songhua River on Friday. "The government wanted to hide this."

2005 November 25, Jim Yardley, “China tried to keep benzene spill secret”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-08-29, Asia Pacific:

The study site of the Songhua River is located in the Heilongjiang Province on the territory of Northern China. The Songhua flows from south west to northeast near the center of Harbin, having a length of about 50 km within the city. The Songhua is a plains river with a sandy bottom and meandering bed. The fairway width ranges from 400 to 800 m, depth from 2 to 12 m. Bottom sediments of the Songhua nearby Harbin, as compared to other rivers and lakes of Northern China, contain particularly high concentrations of Pb, Zn and Ni, as well as appreciable levels of Cd and As [6, 12].

May 2020, Zarykhta, V.V. et al., “Differential Accumulation of Heavy Metals in Soft Tissues of Three Bivalvian Species from the Songhua River near Harbin (China)”, in Journal of Evolutionary Biochemistry and Physiology, volume 56, number 2, pages 125–132:

A river in Northeast China which is the longest tributary of the Amur.


Gele Rivier

Yellow River, Huang He (a major river in northern China, passing through Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Shandong provinces as well as Ningxia and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regions)


弱水

/ʐu̯ɔ⁵¹ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/ʐu̯ɔ⁵¹ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Ruo Shui (a river in Gansu and Inner Mongolia, China)


霍爾果斯河

ㄏㄨㄛˋ ㄦˇ ㄍㄨㄛˇ ㄙ ㄏㄜˊ

ㄏㄨㄛˋ ㄦˇ ㄍㄨㄛˇ ㄙ ㄏㄜˊ

/xu̯ɔ⁵¹ ˀɤɻ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ku̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹ sz̩⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵/

Khorgas River (a river in China and Kazakhstan)


資江

/t͡sz̩⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡sz̩⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/


渭水

/weɪ̯⁵¹ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/wɐi̯²² sɵy̯³⁵/

/weɪ̯⁵¹ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/wɐi̯²² sɵy̯³⁵/


sông Đà

[səwŋ͡m˧˧ ʔɗaː˨˩]

[ʂəwŋ͡m˧˧ ʔɗaː˦˩]

[səwŋ͡m˧˧ ʔɗaː˦˩]

[ʂəwŋ͡m˧˧ ʔɗaː˨˩]

[səwŋ͡m˧˧ ʔɗaː˨˩]

the Black River (a river in Vietnam, China)


Tarim

Similarly, Lop Nur Lake, in southeastern Xinjiang, which once supported a thriving indigenous culture, dried up for good in the early 1970s. Its lifeline, the Tarim River, which used to skirt the northern fringe of the Taklamakan Desert, has been sucked dry by upstream agriculture.

2002 July 19, “Traffic flows where river once did”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-10-07:

The Tarim River, he notes, used to drain into a large inland lake, which dried up completely in the 1960s.

2013 April 30, Steven Mufson, “China struggles to tap its shale gas”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-10-21, Business:

For several decades, the lower Tarim river, in proximity of the new transport corridors, had been in the eye of a major ecological disaster. The upper part of the 2,030 km river was heavily dammed for agricultural purposes.

2019 June 29, Atul Aneja, “The inescapable revival of the Tarim basin”, in The Hindu, archived from the original on 2020-11-07:

A river in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China.


Tumen

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圖們／图们 (Túmén)

Another tribe, the Kwiara, live on the frontiers of Korea, on the north bank of the Tumen river, and these are probably also Orochi.

1861, E. G. Ravenstein, The Russians on the Amur, London: Trubner and Co., page 340:

The Tumen river separates Corea from Manchooria, except in the last few miles of its course, when it flows by Russian territory, the south-eastern corner of Siberia.

1895, Trumbull White, The War in the East Japan, China, and Corea, Philadelphia: P.W. Ziegler & Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 374:

The Tumen is not yet so important as the Yalu, but with the development of a rival to Vladivostock, now a closed port, in Hunchun, it is acquiring greater importance.

1910, The Provinces of China, Together with a History of the First Year of H.I.M. Hsuan Tung, and an Account of the Government of China, Shanghai: The National Review Office, →OCLC, →OL, page 155:

Springing northeast from Paektu, the cold Tumen River separates Korea from eastern Manchuria and Siberia. On the Yalu and along the swift-flowing tributaries of the Tumen stand the Japanese-built hydroelectric plants which, until the power lines were cut by the Communists at the 38th parallel, provided 90% of the electricity used in all Korea.

1950 July 24, “Background for War”, in Time, volume LVI, number 4, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30:

A ride along the Chinese shore of the Tumen River illustrated its potential for development.

1997 [1996], Willem van Kemenade, translated by Diane Webb, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Inc., New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 318:

The Tumen River serves as part of the border between China and North Korea, with the Chinese city of Tumen on the left and the North Korean town of Namyang on the right.

2010 June 9, Sharon LaFraniere, “Views Show How North Korea Policy Spread Misery”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-06-11, Asia Pacific:

A river forming part of the border between Jilin, China and North Korea, and the border between Rasŏn, North Korea and Khasansky district, Primorsky Krai, Russia.


秦淮

/t͡ɕʰin³⁵ xu̯aɪ̯³⁵/

/t͡sʰɵn²¹ waːi̯²¹/

/t͡sʰiŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ huai⁵⁵/

/t͡ɕʰin³⁵ xu̯aɪ̯³⁵/

/t͡sʰɵn²¹ waːi̯²¹/

/t͡sʰiŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ huai⁵⁵/

(～河) Qinhuai River (a river in Jiangsu, China)


葉爾羌河

ㄧㄝˋ ㄦˇ ㄑㄧㄤ ㄏㄜˊ

ㄧㄝˋ ㄦˇ ㄑㄧㄤ ㄏㄜˊ

/jɛ⁵¹ ˀɤɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/jiːp̚² jiː¹³ kœːŋ⁵⁵ hɔː²¹/

/jɛ⁵¹ ˀɤɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/jiːp̚² jiː¹³ kœːŋ⁵⁵ hɔː²¹/

Yarkand River (a river in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China)


灤河

/lu̯än³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/lyːn²¹ hɔː²¹/

/lu̯än³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/lyːn²¹ hɔː²¹/


Тарым өзені

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Тарым өзені • (Tarym özenı)

Tarim River (a river in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China)


資水

/t͡sz̩⁵⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/t͡sz̩⁵⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/


湘水

/ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/


Yalong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 雅礱 /雅砻 (Yǎlóng).

Even among the tributaries of the two great rivers of China, many rivers may be found of considerable length, and some scarcely inferior to the largest rivers of Europe. At the head of these are the Han-shwuy, which, rising in the mountains between Shense and Kansuh, empties itself into the Yang-tsze-keang at Han-yang-Foo, in Hoopih,—and the Ya-lung-keang, which rises in Kokonor, and after running for some time nearly parallel with the Yang-tsze-keang, empties itself into that river on the borders of Szechuen and Kansuh.

[1832 June, Le Ming-che Tsing-lae, “Ta Tsing Wan-neen Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta-tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever."”, in The Chinese Repository, volume I, number 2, Canton, →OCLC, page 38:

Even among the tributaries of the two great rivers of China, many rivers may be found of cansiderable^([sic – meaning considerable]) length, and some scarcely inferior to the largest rivers of Europe. At the head of these are the Han-shwuy, which, rising in the mountains between Shense and Kansuh, empties itself into the Yangtsze keäng at Hanyang foo, in Hoopih,—and the Yalung keäng, which rises in Koko-nor, and after running for some time nearly parallel with the Yangtsze keäng, empties itself into that river on the borders of Szechuen and Kansuh.

[1833 [1832 June], Le Mingche Tsinglae, “Ta Tsing Wan-neën Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta Tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever."”, in The Chinese Repository, 2nd edition, volume I, number 2, Canton, →OCLC, page 38:

A bridge over the Yalong River in Ganzi County, in Sichuan Province.

2008 April 3, Michael Benanav, “Caught Between a Crackdown and a Tibetan Welcome”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2008-04-06, Travel:

I was just a few kilometres outside Garze on the Yalong River, which started its journey on the Qinghai plateau and ended over 1,300 kilometres later when it poured into the Yangtze in the very southernmost corner of Sichuan.

2016, Richard Loseby, chapter 10, in A Boy of China (Non-fiction), HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 131:


撫河

/fu²¹⁴⁻²¹ xɤ³⁵/

/fu²¹⁴⁻²¹ xɤ³⁵/


西遼河

/ɕi⁵⁵ li̯ɑʊ̯³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/ɕi⁵⁵ li̯ɑʊ̯³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

Xiliao River, West Liao River (a river in China)


渦河

/ku̯ɔ⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/ku̯ɔ⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵/

Guo River (a river in Henan and Anhui, China)


sông Cái

[səwŋ͡m˧˧ kaːj˧˦]

[ʂəwŋ͡m˧˧ kaːj˨˩˦]

[səwŋ͡m˧˧ kaːj˨˩˦]

[ʂəwŋ͡m˧˧ kaːj˦˥]

[səwŋ͡m˧˧ kaːj˦˥]

sông (“river”) + cái (“mother”), literally "mother river", or, sông (“river”) + cái (“great, main”), means "Great River"; both interpretations might be correct, because both meanings are from the same etymology. This word was transliterated by the French as Song-Koï and Song-Coï.
This was the original name of the Red River, but later used to refer to many other rivers of Vietnam. May be related to other Vietnamese river names such as Cái Lớn, Cái Bé, Cái Mép, Cái Vùng, Cái Tàu and Cái Cối.
For some semantic parallels, compare Coptic ⲡⲉⲓⲉⲣⲟ (peiero), ⲫ̀ⲓⲁⲣⲟ (ph̀iaro, “the Nile”), Spanish Río Grande, Korean 한강(漢江) (han'gang, “Han river”) (where 漢 is a phonogram used to write the native Korean morpheme for "big", see Middle Korean 하다〮 (hàtá)).

(historical) Red River (a river in northern Vietnam and Yunnan, southern China)


Suzhou Creek

Partial calque from Mandarin 蘇州河／苏州河 (Sūzhōu Hé)

zh-l

蘇州河／苏州河 (Sūzhōu Hé)

The play centres on a Jewish-run cafe on the northern bank of Shanghai's Suzhou Creek, where Shana, the daughter of the cafe owner, finds herself pursued by both a Japanese official, Mr. Suzuki, as well as Song Yao, a Chinese resistance fighter.

2012 March 23, Royston Chan, Elaine Lies, “Play tells tale of Jewish refugees in WW2 Shanghai”, in Paul Casciato, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2024-10-13, Lifestyle:

Suzhou Creek was little more than an open sewer for decades as its murky waters coursed through the heart of Shanghai. Now, it teems with life along verdant banks that stretch for 26 miles.

2021 June 1, Keith Bradsher, “China’s Concrete Jungles Make Room for Green Space”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-06-01, Square Feet:

A river in Shanghai municipality and Jiangsu, China, between Lake Tai and the Huangpu River; despite its name, it is 78 miles long.


Longjiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 龍江 /龙江 (Lóngjiāng), "Dragon River".

Former name of the Jiulong: a river in southern Fujian, China.


Jialing

Translingual: Chialingosaurus

A left tributary of the Yangtze in Sichuan, China.


Jialing

le Jialing (canonical masculine)
Kialing (alternative dated)

The Jialing (a left tributary of the Yangtze in Sichuan, China)


洙水

/ʈ͡ʂu⁵⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/t͡syː⁵⁵ sɵy̯³⁵/

/ʈ͡ʂu⁵⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/t͡syː⁵⁵ sɵy̯³⁵/


洙泗

/ʈ͡ʂu⁵⁵ sz̩⁵¹/

/ʈ͡ʂu⁵⁵ sz̩⁵¹/


Croceus

la-proper noun

Croceus m sg (genitive Croceī); second declension

Croceī (genitive)
Croceus (nominative singular)
Croceī (genitive singular)
Croceō (dative singular)
Croceum (accusative singular)
Croceō (ablative singular)
Crocee (singular vocative)
Crocceus (alternative)

A calque of Literary Chinese 黃河 (Huánghé).


Crocceus

Crocceus m sg (genitive Crocceī); second declension

Crocceī (genitive)
Crocceus (nominative singular)
Crocceī (genitive singular)
Crocceō (dative singular)
Crocceum (accusative singular)
Crocceō (ablative singular)
Croccee (singular vocative)

alternative form of Croceus: Yellow River, Huang He (a major river in northern China, passing through Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Shandong provinces as well as Ningxia and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regions)


যমুনা

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit যমুনা (yamunā).

lbor

Brahmaputra (a river in China, India and Bangladesh)


သိန္ဓု

သိန္ဓုမြစ်

Indus (a major river in China, India and Pakistan, rising in Tibet and flowing into the Arabian Sea)


ব্রহ্মপুত্র

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit ब्रह्मपुत्र (brahmaputra, “son of Brahma”), from ब्रह्मा (brahmā, “Brahma”) + पुत्र (putra, “son”).


汀江

/tʰiŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/tʰiŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

Ting River (a river in western Fujian and a main tributary of the Han River)


Han River

Partial calque of Chinese 漢江 /汉江 (Hànjiāng).

partial calque

In the one case, a two-storeyed house in Wuchang which has long been needing repairs collapsed and killed the mother and son of the occupier. In the other case, a house built partly on piles at the edge of the Han River above Chiaokou was overturned and the wife and daughter of the tenant were thrown into the river and drowned.

1930 August 5 [1930 August 1], “Hailstone Damage Near Hankow”, in The North-China Herald and Supreme Court and Consular Gazette, volume CLXXVI, number 3287, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 199, column 5:

Here, more than 14 million people in Hubei would be affected if the project damaged the Han River, the tributary of the Yangtze where the middle route starts, said Du Yun, a geographer at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Wuhan, the provincial capital.

2011 June 1, Edward Wong, “Plan for China’s Water Crisis Spurs Concern”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-06-03, Asia Pacific:

A tributary of the Yangtse flowing through Shaanxi and Hubei, China, with its river mouth in Wuhan


બ્રહ્મપુત્ર

બ્રહ્ મ પુત્ ર


Jiulong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 九龍江 /九龙江 (Jiǔlóng Jiāng).

Wind-driven ocean currents from China's booming coastal city of Xiamen, only about 2 km (1.25 miles) away, bring garbage across a sea channel that decades ago was the scene of fierce fighting between China and Taiwan during a protracted civil war.
The problem gets worse when it rains, as storms bring extra-large onslaughts from the mouth of the nearby Jiulong River in China.

2007 August 9, Ralph Jennings, “FEATURE-Taiwan rankled by China litter washing up on beaches”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2025-03-15:


伊通河

/i⁵⁵ tʰʊŋ⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/jiː⁵⁵ tʰʊŋ⁵⁵ hɔː²¹/

/i⁵⁵ tʰʊŋ⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/jiː⁵⁵ tʰʊŋ⁵⁵ hɔː²¹/

Yitong River (a river in Jilin province, China; the largest tributary of the Yinma River)


飲馬河

/in⁵¹ mä²¹⁴⁻²¹ xɤ³⁵/

/in⁵¹ mä²¹⁴⁻²¹ xɤ³⁵/

飲馬／饮马 (yìnmǎ) is in fact a phono-semantic matching of the non-Sinitic name of the river.

zh-l

飲馬／饮马 (yìnmǎ)

Yinma River (a river in Jilin province, China; a tributary of the Second Songhua River)


río Amarillo

Yellow River, Huang He (a major river in northern China, passing through Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Shandong provinces as well as Ningxia and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regions)


Kherlen

Kern (alternative)
Kerulen (alternative)

Three principal rivers meander through the area: the Kherlen, Halhaun, and Uldza. Two of these originate in the Kentey Mountains and flow through the lowlands in the northeastern part of the plain; the larger Kherlen empties into Hu-lun-ch'ih (Dalay) Lake in the Chinese People's Republic, while the Uldza, when it does not first dry up, empties into the Tooroy Lake in the Soviet Union.

1963 July 1, “Mongolia”, in Characteristics of Manchuria, Mongolia, and North China (Air Force Pamphlet), number 200-2-4, Washington, D.C.: Department of the Air Force, →OCLC, page 85:

The Khustyn Bulag site group is located in the upper basin of the Kherlen River in Tuv Aimag in Mongolia. It is located on a wide flat terrace on the northeastern shore of the Zuun Baidlag River, a tributary of the Kherlen River, and consists of many sites from the Paleolithic Age to the nineteenth century.

2022, Isao Usuki, “Introduction and Deployment of the Ceramic Industry in the Xiongnu Empire”, in Tomoko Nagatomo, Maria Shinoto, Daisuke Nakamura, editors, Kilns in East and North Asia: The adoption of ceramic industries (Archaeology of East Asia), volume 7, Oxford: BAR Publishing, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 128:

A river in China and Mongolia, periodical tributary of Argun.


ᡄᠷᡔᡅᠰ

ercis (romanization)
ᡄᠷᡔᡅᠱ (alternative)

→ Manchu: ᡝᡵᠴᡳᠰ (ercis)

desc

→ Chinese: 額爾齊斯 /额尔齐斯 (É'ěrqísī) (via Mandarin)

Irtysh (a river in China, Kazakhstan, Russia)


ବ୍ରହ୍ମପୁତ୍ର

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit ब्रह्मपुत्र (brahmaputra).

lbor

Brahmaputra (a river in India, Bangladesh and China)


sông Lô

[səwŋ͡m˧˧ lo˧˧]

[ʂəwŋ͡m˧˧ low˧˧]

[ʂəwŋ͡m˧˧ low˧˧]

Lô River (a river in northern Vietnam and Yunnan, southern China)


ᠢᠯᠡ

ᠣᠶᠢᠷᠣᠳ
ᠵᠡᠭᠦᠨ
ᠭᠠᠷᠤᠨ
ᠨᠤᠲᠤᠭ ᠤᠨ
ᠵᠡᠭᠦᠨ
ᠥᠵᠢᠭᠦᠷ ᠦᠨ
ᠬᠢᠲᠠᠳ ᠤᠨ
ᠵᠠᠶᠠᠭᡡᠨ
ᠬᠡᠮᠡᠬᠦ
ᠬᠡᠷᠡᠮ ᠡᠴᠡ
ᠪᠠᠷᠠᠭᠤᠨ
ᠪᠢᠶᠡ ᠦ
ᠢᠯᠡ᠂
ᠡᠷᠴᠢᠰ
ᠬᠣᠶᠠᠷ ᠤᠨ
ᠤᠰᠤᠨ ᠤ
ᠤᠷᠤᠰᠬᠠᠯ
ᠳᠠᠭᠠᠵᠤ
ᠪᠠᠶᠢᠳᠠᠭ
ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ
ᠲᠡᠭᠦᠨ ᠢ
︽ᠵᠡᠭᠦᠨ
ᠭᠠᠷ︾
ᠬᠡᠮᠡᠮᠦᠢ᠃

19th century, J̌imbadorǰi, ᠪᠣᠯᠤᠷ
ᠲᠣᠯᠢ [the Crystal Mirror]:

oyirod ǰegün ɣarun nutug-un ǰegün öǰigür-ün kitad-un ǰayaɣᡡn kemekü kerem-eče baraɣun biy-e-ü ile, erčis qoyar-un usun-u urusqal daɣaǰu bayidag mongɣol tegün-i ︽ǰegün ɣar︾ kememüi.

Ili (a river in modern-day Xinjiang autonomous region, China and Kazakhstan)


Mudan

Heilongjiang had implemented the plan in seven non-coal mine districts south of the Mudan river and another plan to cut the number of non-coal mines was expected to be carried out by the end of 2008.

2007 December 10, “China orders mines shut in Shanxi and Heilongjiang”, in Reuters, sourced from Beijing, archived from the original on 2025-02-06:

On Thursday, a highway bridge in Heilongjiang collapsed, sending two cars plunging into the Mudan River, according to state media. There was no word on possible deaths or injuries.

2023 August 4, Caroline Chen, “Deadly flooding in China worsens as rescues and evacuations intensify”, in AP News, sourced from BEIJING (AP), archived from the original on 2023-08-06, World News:

A river in Heilongjiang, China, tributary of Songhua (Sungari).


Хаш

Chinese: 喀什 (Kāshí)

Russian: Каш (Kaš)

English: Kash


Или

English: Ili


शुतुद्री

sa-prop

शुतुद्री • (śútudrī) stem, f

śútudrī (romanization)
शुतुद्री (nominative singular)
शुतुद्रीम् (accusative singular)
शुतुद्र्या (instrumental singular)
शुतुद्र्यै (dative singular)
शुतुद्र्याः (ablative singular)
शुतुद्र्यै1 (ablative singular)
शुतुद्र्याः (genitive singular)
शुतुद्र्यै1 (genitive singular)
शुतुद्र्याम् (locative singular)
शुतुद्रि (singular vocative)

(geography) Sutlej (a river in China, India and Pakistan)


Raskam

Similarly, on the upper valleys of the Raskam river, a major tributary of the Yarkand river in Sinkiang, the Mir possessed certain rights of cultivation which he valued as this was the only direction in which he could expand his territory to accommodate any population increase: to the south he was effectively hemmed in by other states.

1964, Alastair Lamb, “Hunza, the Pamirs, and Aksai Chin in 1912”, in The China-India Border, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 98:

A river in China, the upper part of Yarkand.


창강

[t͡ɕʰa̠ŋɡa̠ŋ]

Yangtze (the chief river of central China)


Jangtsekiang

de-proper noun

der Jangtsekiang m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Jangtsekiangs)

der Jangtsekiang (canonical masculine)
des Jangtsekiangs (definite genitive)
Jangtse (alternative)

Borrowed from Chinese 揚子江 /扬子江 (Yángzǐ Jiāng).


Яндзъ

bg-proper noun

Яндзъ́ • (Jandzǎ́) f

Яндзъ́ (canonical)
Jandzǎ́ (romanization)

Yangtze or Chang Jiang (a river in China)