Chiang-han

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 江漢／江汉 (Jiānghàn) Wade-Giles romanization: Chiang¹-han⁴.

Proper noun

Chiang-han

Alternative form of Jianghan
- Tang Dynasty, Tu Fu, “They Say You're Staying in a Mountain Temple”, in Talking to the Sun: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems for Young People‎, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, LCCN 85-15428, OCLC 1104854363, page 71:
  In the wind and grime of war, how long since we parted?
  At Chiang-han, bright autumns waste away.

Translations

Jianghan — see Jianghan

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