See Pearl River in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "",
"name": "wp"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "Pearl River (China)"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "commonscat"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "calque",
"2": "Calque"
},
"expansion": "Calque",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "zh",
"3": "-",
"notext": "1"
},
"expansion": "Chinese",
"name": "calque"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "*珠江",
"lit": "pearl river"
},
"expansion": "珠江 (literally “pearl river”)",
"name": "zh-l"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Calque of Chinese 珠江 (literally “pearl river”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "the Pearl River",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"def": "1",
"head": "Pearl River"
},
"expansion": "the Pearl River",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Places in China",
"orig": "en:Places in China",
"parents": [
"Places",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Rivers in China",
"orig": "en:Rivers in China",
"parents": [
"Rivers",
"Places",
"Bodies of water",
"Names",
"Landforms",
"Water",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Earth",
"Liquids",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Nature",
"Matter",
"Lemmas",
"Chemistry",
"Sciences"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Cantonese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Korean translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Zhuang translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "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:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "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:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1976 April 25, L. Chen, “Mao's word is unanimous vote?”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVII, number 16, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:",
"text": "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.\nWe 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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2021 November 19, “China Evergrande resumes construction on 63 projects in Pearl River delta”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-11-19:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A major river in southern China."
],
"id": "en-Pearl_River-en-name-MWhLeb37",
"links": [
[
"China",
"China#English"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Pearl"
},
{
"word": "Canton"
},
{
"word": "Great River"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "zyu¹ gong¹",
"sense": "river in China",
"word": "珠江"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Zhū Jiāng",
"sense": "river in China",
"word": "珠江"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "river in China",
"word": "Gyöngy-folyó"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jugang",
"sense": "river in China",
"word": "주강"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "river in China",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Rio das Pérolas"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "Žemčužnaja reka",
"sense": "river in China",
"word": "Жемчужная река"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "river in China",
"word": "Châu Giang"
},
{
"code": "za",
"lang": "Zhuang",
"sense": "river in China",
"word": "Cuhgyangh"
}
]
}
],
"word": "Pearl River"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "19 22 30 29",
"word": "Pearl River County"
}
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"head": "Pearl River"
},
"expansion": "Pearl River",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A river in Mississippi and Louisiana, USA."
],
"id": "en-Pearl_River-en-name-8pkKC6kN",
"links": [
[
"the",
"the#English"
],
[
"Mississippi",
"Mississippi"
],
[
"Louisiana",
"Louisiana"
],
[
"USA",
"USA"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(with the) A river in Mississippi and Louisiana, USA."
],
"raw_tags": [
"with the"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Places in Louisiana, USA",
"orig": "en:Places in Louisiana, USA",
"parents": [
"Places",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Places in the United States",
"orig": "en:Places in the United States",
"parents": [
"Places",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Towns in Louisiana, USA",
"orig": "en:Towns in Louisiana, USA",
"parents": [
"Towns",
"Places",
"Polities",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Towns in the United States",
"orig": "en:Towns in the United States",
"parents": [
"Towns",
"Places",
"Polities",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "2 0 14 43 41",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 1 12 44 41",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 1 15 43 40",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 1 32 34 32",
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Rivers in the United States",
"orig": "en:Rivers in the United States",
"parents": [
"Rivers",
"Places",
"Bodies of water",
"Names",
"Landforms",
"Water",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Earth",
"Liquids",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Nature",
"Matter",
"Lemmas",
"Chemistry",
"Sciences"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A town in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States."
],
"id": "en-Pearl_River-en-name-YpmBrP9k",
"links": [
[
"St. Tammany Parish",
"St. Tammany Parish#English"
],
[
"Louisiana",
"Louisiana#English"
],
[
"United States",
"United States#English"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Census-designated places in Mississippi, USA",
"orig": "en:Census-designated places in Mississippi, USA",
"parents": [
"Census-designated places",
"Places",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Census-designated places in the United States",
"orig": "en:Census-designated places in the United States",
"parents": [
"Census-designated places",
"Places",
"United States",
"Names",
"North America",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"America",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Earth",
"Lemmas",
"Nature"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Places in Mississippi, USA",
"orig": "en:Places in Mississippi, USA",
"parents": [
"Places",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Places in the United States",
"orig": "en:Places in the United States",
"parents": [
"Places",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "2 0 14 43 41",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 1 12 44 41",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 1 15 43 40",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 1 32 34 32",
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Rivers in the United States",
"orig": "en:Rivers in the United States",
"parents": [
"Rivers",
"Places",
"Bodies of water",
"Names",
"Landforms",
"Water",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Earth",
"Liquids",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Nature",
"Matter",
"Lemmas",
"Chemistry",
"Sciences"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A census-designated place in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States."
],
"id": "en-Pearl_River-en-name-ZJAG~4dk",
"links": [
[
"census-designated place",
"census-designated place"
],
[
"Neshoba County",
"Neshoba County#English"
],
[
"Mississippi",
"Mississippi#English"
],
[
"United States",
"United States#English"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Census-designated places in New York, USA",
"orig": "en:Census-designated places in New York, USA",
"parents": [
"Census-designated places",
"Places",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Census-designated places in the United States",
"orig": "en:Census-designated places in the United States",
"parents": [
"Census-designated places",
"Places",
"United States",
"Names",
"North America",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"America",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Earth",
"Lemmas",
"Nature"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Places in New York, USA",
"orig": "en:Places in New York, USA",
"parents": [
"Places",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Places in the United States",
"orig": "en:Places in the United States",
"parents": [
"Places",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Villages in New York, USA",
"orig": "en:Villages in New York, USA",
"parents": [
"Villages",
"Places",
"Polities",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Villages in the United States",
"orig": "en:Villages in the United States",
"parents": [
"Villages",
"Places",
"Polities",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "2 0 14 43 41",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 1 12 44 41",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 1 15 43 40",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 1 32 34 32",
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Rivers in the United States",
"orig": "en:Rivers in the United States",
"parents": [
"Rivers",
"Places",
"Bodies of water",
"Names",
"Landforms",
"Water",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Earth",
"Liquids",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Nature",
"Matter",
"Lemmas",
"Chemistry",
"Sciences"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A hamlet and census-designated place in Rockland County, New York, United States."
],
"id": "en-Pearl_River-en-name-vWPNHWNT",
"links": [
[
"hamlet",
"hamlet"
],
[
"census-designated place",
"census-designated place"
],
[
"Rockland County",
"Rockland County#English"
],
[
"New York",
"New York#English"
],
[
"United States",
"United States#English"
]
]
}
],
"word": "Pearl River"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English proper nouns",
"English terms calqued from Chinese",
"English terms derived from Chinese",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Cantonese translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Korean translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Vietnamese translations",
"Terms with Zhuang translations",
"en:Rivers in the United States"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "",
"name": "wp"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "Pearl River (China)"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "commonscat"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "calque",
"2": "Calque"
},
"expansion": "Calque",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "zh",
"3": "-",
"notext": "1"
},
"expansion": "Chinese",
"name": "calque"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "*珠江",
"lit": "pearl river"
},
"expansion": "珠江 (literally “pearl river”)",
"name": "zh-l"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Calque of Chinese 珠江 (literally “pearl river”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "the Pearl River",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"def": "1",
"head": "Pearl River"
},
"expansion": "the Pearl River",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Places in China",
"en:Rivers in China"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "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:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "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:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1976 April 25, L. Chen, “Mao's word is unanimous vote?”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVII, number 16, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:",
"text": "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.\nWe 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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2021 November 19, “China Evergrande resumes construction on 63 projects in Pearl River delta”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-11-19:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A major river in southern China."
],
"links": [
[
"China",
"China#English"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Pearl"
},
{
"word": "Canton"
},
{
"word": "Great River"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "zyu¹ gong¹",
"sense": "river in China",
"word": "珠江"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Zhū Jiāng",
"sense": "river in China",
"word": "珠江"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "river in China",
"word": "Gyöngy-folyó"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jugang",
"sense": "river in China",
"word": "주강"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "river in China",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Rio das Pérolas"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "Žemčužnaja reka",
"sense": "river in China",
"word": "Жемчужная река"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "river in China",
"word": "Châu Giang"
},
{
"code": "za",
"lang": "Zhuang",
"sense": "river in China",
"word": "Cuhgyangh"
}
],
"word": "Pearl River"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English proper nouns",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Rivers in the United States"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "Pearl River County"
}
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"head": "Pearl River"
},
"expansion": "Pearl River",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A river in Mississippi and Louisiana, USA."
],
"links": [
[
"the",
"the#English"
],
[
"Mississippi",
"Mississippi"
],
[
"Louisiana",
"Louisiana"
],
[
"USA",
"USA"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(with the) A river in Mississippi and Louisiana, USA."
],
"raw_tags": [
"with the"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Places in Louisiana, USA",
"en:Places in the United States",
"en:Towns in Louisiana, USA",
"en:Towns in the United States"
],
"glosses": [
"A town in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States."
],
"links": [
[
"St. Tammany Parish",
"St. Tammany Parish#English"
],
[
"Louisiana",
"Louisiana#English"
],
[
"United States",
"United States#English"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Census-designated places in Mississippi, USA",
"en:Census-designated places in the United States",
"en:Places in Mississippi, USA",
"en:Places in the United States"
],
"glosses": [
"A census-designated place in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States."
],
"links": [
[
"census-designated place",
"census-designated place"
],
[
"Neshoba County",
"Neshoba County#English"
],
[
"Mississippi",
"Mississippi#English"
],
[
"United States",
"United States#English"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Census-designated places in New York, USA",
"en:Census-designated places in the United States",
"en:Places in New York, USA",
"en:Places in the United States",
"en:Villages in New York, USA",
"en:Villages in the United States"
],
"glosses": [
"A hamlet and census-designated place in Rockland County, New York, United States."
],
"links": [
[
"hamlet",
"hamlet"
],
[
"census-designated place",
"census-designated place"
],
[
"Rockland County",
"Rockland County#English"
],
[
"New York",
"New York#English"
],
[
"United States",
"United States#English"
]
]
}
],
"word": "Pearl River"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Pearl River meaning in English (6.6kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.