Qiantang

• (from Wade–Giles) Ch'ien-t'ang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 錢塘／钱塘 (Qiántáng), named for the dyke constructed on the river by Qian Liu, ruler of Wuyue, one of the Ten Kingdoms that succeeded the Tang dynasty.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˌænˈtæŋ/

Qiantang

1. A river in China, flowing north and east through Zhejiang into Hangzhou Bay.
   • [1669, Nievhoff, John, John Ogilby, transl., An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China‎, London: John Macock, OCLC 561227535, page 238:

     In the Province of Chekiang, near the chief City of Hangcheu, runs a River, which in regard of its courſe, is called ſometimes Che, at other times Cientang, and in ſome places Cingan.]

   • 2002, Schoppa, R. Keith, Song Full of Tears: Nine Centuries of Chinese Life at Xiang Lake‎, Westview Press, →ISBN, OCLC 51818586, page 3:

     To the west and beyond the lake to the south was the broad river the Qiantang, at its widest almost two miles across, at its narrowest, at least half a mile.

2. (historical) A former name of Hangzhou, China.