烏江

Chinese

		crow(s) raven(s) black	river(s)
trad. (烏江)		烏	江
simp. (乌江)		乌	江

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Wūjiāng

  (Zhuyin): ㄨ ㄐㄧㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wu¹ gong¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Wūjiāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄨ ㄐㄧㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Wujiang
    • Wade–Giles: Wu¹-chiang¹
    • Yale: Wū-jyāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Ujiang
    • Palladius: Уцзян (Uczjan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wu¹ gong¹
    • Yale: wū gōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wu¹ gong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wu¹ gong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuː⁵⁵ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'u kaewng

Rime
Character	烏	江
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	模 (23)	江 (9)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	II
Fanqie	哀都切	古雙切
Baxter	'u	kaewng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔuo/	/kˠʌŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔuo/	/kᵚɔŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔo/	/kɔŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɔ/	/kaɨwŋ/
Li Rong	/ʔo/	/kɔŋ/
Wang Li	/u/	/kɔŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔuo/	/kɔŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wū	jiāng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wu1	gong1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qˤa  kˤroŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qaː  kroːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	烏	江
Reading #	2/3	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wū	jiāng
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔu ›	‹ kæwng ›
Old Chinese	/*qˁa/	/*kˁroŋ/
English	crow, raven; black	(Yangzi) river
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	烏	江
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	13077	3995
Phonetic component	烏	工
Rime group	魚	東
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	烏	江
Old Chinese	/*qaː/	/*kroːŋ/

Proper noun

烏江

1. Wu River (a river in Guizhou, China), a tributary of the Yangtze
2. (～鎮) Wujiang Town (name of several towns in China)
3. (～縣) Wujiang County (an ancient county in modern-day Anhui, China)