Wujiang

See also: wǔjiàng and Wūjiāng

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wud͡ʒjɑŋ/, /wud͡ʒjæŋ/, enPR: wo͞oʹjyängʹ

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 吳江／吴江 (Wújiāng, “Wu River”), after the once major Wusong River nearby.

Alternative forms

• Wukiang (postal), Wu-chiang (Wade–Giles)

Proper noun

Wujiang

1. A district of Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
   • 1966, Mao Tse-tung, Poems of Mao Tse-tung‎^[2], Eastern Horizon Press, →OCLC, page 84:

     Mr Liu Ya-tse: Liu Chi-chi, a patriotic poet, native of Wuchiang, Kiangsu. Took a prominent part in revolutionary activities from the end of the Ching dynasty and a founder of the famous Nan She Society.

   • 2001 April 28, John Pomfret, “Taiwan Has an Outbreak of Shanghai Fever”, in The Washington Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on August 27, 2017‎^[4]:

     "Without China, I'd be bankrupt," said Feng Wen-bing, a Taiwanese who co-owns a $10 million electronics firm in Wujiang, near Shanghai. Thirty factories are currently being built there and 30 more are expected to start being constructed soon. Most are Taiwan-owned.

   • 2005 May 9, Wolfgang Saxon, “Fei Xiaotong, 94, a Pioneer in Chinese Anthropology, Is Dead”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-29, Obituaries‎^[6]:

     He was born in Wujiang County, Jiangsu Province, in eastern China and began his higher education at Yenching University in Beijing, planning to study medicine. But deciding that China's problems were social and political rather than medical, he turned to sociology.

Translations

district in eastern China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吳江／吴江 (zh) (Wújiāng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wujiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3494, column 3
• Wujiang, Wu-chiang, Wuchiang, Wukiang at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 烏江／乌江 (Wū or Wùjiāng, “Raven or Black River”).

Proper noun

Wujiang

1. Synonym of Wu River, various rivers in China, particularly a major tributary of the Yangtze rising in Guizhou.