Yangzi

See also: yāngzi, Yángzǐ, yángzi, yǎngzǐ, and yàngzi

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjæŋ.zi/, /ˈjɑŋ-/, /-tsi/, /-tsə/

Etymology 1

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 揚子／扬子 (Yángzǐ).

Proper noun

Yangzi

1. (uncommon) Alternative spelling of Yangtze
   • 1975, Janet Goldwasser, Stuart Dowty, Huan-Ying: Worker's China‎^[2], Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 252:

     The only armed guards we saw in China were army and militia sentries on duty at public buildings or other important structures, such as the bridge across the Yangzi River at Wuhan.

   • 1980, “China”, in All-Asia Guide‎^[3], Hongkong: Far Eastern Economic Review, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 118:

     The triple city of Wuhan, capital of Hebei^{[sic – meaning Hubei]} province, lies on the middle reaches of the Yangzi River at its confluence with the Han River, and on the main north-south railway linking Peking and Canton.

   • 2000 October 12, “Gao Xingjian Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-08-23, Arts‎^[5]:

     Of his novels, the best known is "Soul Mountain," a long, impressionistic, musing work that arose from a 10-month walking tour Mr. Gao took along the Yangzi River in 1986 following a period of increasing harassment from the Chinese authorities over the content of his plays.

   • 2001, Cai Hua, “General Presentation”, in Asti Hustvedt, transl., A Society without Fathers or Husbands: the Na of China‎^[6], New York: Zone Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 36:

     The Jingsha^{[sic – meaning Jinsha]} River, upriver from the Yangzi, cuts the region in two. The groups on the east side of the river, the NaRu, the Na, and the Nahing, understand one another.

   • 2003, Qin Shao, “The Model in Space and Time”, in Culturing Modernity: The Nantong Model, 1890-1930‎^[7], Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 71:

     The Buddhist monastery Guangjiao (Broad Teaching) for which Langshan was noted can be traced back to the Tang dynasty, when the hill it now stands on was still an island in the Yangzi, and a ferry was used for pilgrimages. Langshan subsequently became one of the earliest small towns in Nantong, for the thousands of visitors who were attracted by the monastery and the vistas of the river demanded restaurants, inns, snack shops, joss stick and candle shops, and other services.

   • 2008, China (Eyewitness Travel Guides)‎^[8], Dorling Kindersley, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 23:

     Intensively cultivated and denuded of natural vegetation, the huge lowland flood-plains of major rivers, notably the Yellow and Yangzi, are a seemingly endless patchwork of fields.

   • 2008, Adeline Yen Mah, China: Land of Dragons and Emperors‎^[9], Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 70:

     Finally, he built the 2000-kilometre (1200-mile) Grand Canal which linked the Yangzi River in the south to the Yellow River in the north.

   • 2011 March 9, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Out of Jail in China, but Not Free”, in The New York Times‎^[10], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 June 2017, Asia Pacific‎^[11]:

     The middle, most common, kind, was known as “anzhi,” or “peaceably established.” It was used against the poet and official Su Shi, who was found guilty of “great irreverence” for publishing poems critical of government policies in 1079 and sentenced to two years of village arrest in Huangzhou on the Yangzi River.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yangzi.

Alternative forms

• Yanzi (misspelling)

Derived terms

• Yangzi Jiang

Etymology 2

Map including Yang-tzu (Yangzi) (DMA, 1985)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 洋梓 (Yángzǐ).

Proper noun

Yangzi

1. A town in Zhongxiang, Jingmen, Hubei, China.
   • 2001 December 17, “Brief report on the financial loss of the church in Hubei”, in Congressional-Executive Commission on China‎^[12], archived from the original on September 23, 2014‎^[13]:

     Liu Cuilan at Bailing Village of Yangzi Town in Zhongxiang city has a large house of 140 meters² (about 1506 ft².) for the [Christians] gatherings, which was torn down by the policemen from Yingzhong police station in August 2001.

2. A residential community of Yangzi, Zhongxiang, Jingmen, Hubei, China.
3. A village in Yangzi, Zhongxiang, Jingmen, Hubei, China.

Alternative forms

• Yang-tzu, Yang-tzŭ (obs.)

Translations

a town in central China; a residential community in central China; a village in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 洋梓 (Yángzǐ)

Further reading

• Yangzi at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

Anagrams

• Ziyang