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Yangtse

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  1. 1
    Alternative form of Yangtze. alt-of, alternative

    "The only claim the writer has to deal with this subject is that of having resided some three years at Han-kow, a large city of 700,000 inhabitants, situated in the province of Hu-pe, on the banks of the Yang-tse, at the place where the Han River enters it, some 600 miles from the sea, situated in the centre of the flooded districts."

  2. 2
    A gewog of Trashi Yangtse District, Bhutan.

Etymology

An irregular romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 揚子 /扬子 (Yángzǐ) and 揚子江 /扬子江 (Yángzǐ Jiāng), q.v.

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