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jiāng

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jiāng Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
jiāng | jiang1
English translation
border
boundary
boundary, border, frontier

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About jiāng

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Number of strokes

19

Traditional form

jiāng

Contains the radical

Tián

Part of speech

Noun / 名词 míng cí Míngcí

Learning hint

A bow  gōng and arrow  used to defend a border  jiāng jiāng also provides the pronunciation

Etymology of jiāng

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

⿰⿹弓土畺

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Example sentences using jiāng

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xiě le běn 描写 miáoxiě 边疆 biānjiāng 各省 de zhuān zhù .

He wrote a book descriptive of the frontier provinces.

卡车 kǎchē 货物 huò wù shū wǎng 边疆 biānjiāng 地区 dìqū .

Commodities are transported to border areas by truck.

成吉思汗 Chéng jí sī hán , 马兰 Mǎ lán zài 狂热 kuáng rè de 开疆拓 Zhōng 消灭 xiāomiè le 所有 suǒyǒu 反抗 fǎnkàng 他们 tā men de rén .

Khan, Tamerlans in the fury of conquest exterminated all who resisted them.

de 疆域 jiāng yù 包括 bāokuò Dōng 阿尔卑斯 Ā ěr bēi sī Shān de 一部分 yī bù fen 多瑙河 Duō nǎo Hé 流域 liú yù 的一部分.

Its territory includes part of the eastern Alps as well as of the Danube basin.

Words with jiāng

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
新疆 Xīn jiāng Xinjiang新疆 Xīn jiāng
jiāng border jiāng
边疆 biānjiāng border area邊疆
疆土 jiāng tǔ territory疆土 jiāng tǔ
疆域 jiāng yù territory疆域 jiāng yù
阿塞拜疆 Ā sài bài jiāng Azerbaijan, former Soviet Republic and region of northwest Iran in Caucasus阿塞拜疆 Ā sài bài jiāng
疆场 jiāng chǎng battlefield疆場
新疆维吾尔自治区 Xīn jiāng Wéi wú ěr Zì zhì qū Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region, abbr. Xīn , capital Urumqi or Ürümqi 烏魯木齊|乌鲁木齐 Wū lǔ mù qí 新疆維吾爾自治區
万寿无疆 wàn shòu wú jiāng long may you live萬壽無疆
南疆 Nán Jiāng South Xinjiang南疆 Nán Jiāng
疆界 jiāng jiè border疆界 jiāng jiè
海疆 hǎi jiāng coastal border region海疆 hǎi jiāng
封疆 fēng jiāng border region封疆 fēng jiāng
东疆 Dōng Jiāng East of Xinjiang東疆

jiāng Decomposition & Compounds

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jiāng Decomposition

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