Longjiang

See also: Lóngjiāng

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 龍江／龙江 (Lóngjiāng), "Dragon River".

Proper noun

Longjiang

1. A county of Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, China
   • [1949, Anna Louis Strong, “The Chinese Conquer China”, in The Chinese Conquer China‎^[1], Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 240:

     The reasons Chiang failed and the Communists succeeded appear from these examples. Everywhere in Manchuria's rural areas the "recovering armies" authorized by Chiang and led by landlords lived by requisitions which the peasants saw as loot. Governor Yu of Tsitsihar told me that these "recovering armies" had seized 10,500 head of livestock in Chinghsing County, 14,300 in Kannan County, 18,825 Lungchiang County, and so on.]

   • 2008 September 27, “Zhai Zhigang: long wait to realise dream”, in South China Morning Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on March 12, 2024:

     Colonel Zhai was born into a poor family in a village in Heilongjiang's Longjiang county, and he might never have realised his dream if not for his mother, who sold toasted sunflower seeds to pay for his education.

   • 2015 December 25, “Four prison guards sentenced for NE China prison scandal”, in Global Times‎^[3], archived from the original on 13 November 2019‎^[4]:

     Four former prison guards in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province were handed jail terms from a year and four months to two and a half years on Friday for turning a blind eye to a prisoner who seduced and blackmailed a number of women while behind bars.
     The four defendants stood trial at Longjiang County People's Court in the city of Qiqihaer on Friday morning.

2. A former village in Zhejiang, China, now part of Longgang.
3. Former name of Jiulong (“Chinese river”).

Translations

Heilongjiang county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 龍江／龙江 (zh) (Lóngjiāng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Zhejiang village

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 龍江／龙江 (zh) (Lóngjiāng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can