# 江東
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): Jiāngdōng
    (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄤ ㄉㄨㄥ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): gong$^1$ dung$^1$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^1$kaon-ton
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: Jiāngdōng
*** Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄤ ㄉㄨㄥ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: Jiangdong
*** Wade–Giles: Chiang$^1$-tung$^1$
*** Yale: Jyāng-dūng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Jiangdong
*** Palladius: Цзяндун (Czjandun)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ tʊŋ⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: gong$^1$ dung$^1$
*** Yale: gōng dūng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: gong$^1$ dung$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: gong$^1$ dung$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /kɔːŋ⁵⁵ tʊŋ⁵⁵/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^1$kaon-ton
*** MiniDict: kaon$^平$ ton
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^1$kaan-ton
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /kɑ̃⁵⁵ toŋ²¹/
* Middle Chinese: kaewng tuwng
Rime :
| Character | 江 | 東 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) | 端 (5) |
| Final (韻) | 江 (9) | 東 (1) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | II | I |
| Fanqie | 古雙切 | 德紅切 |
| Baxter | kaewng | tuwng |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kˠʌŋ/ | /tuŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kᵚɔŋ/ | /tuŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kɔŋ/ | /tuŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kaɨwŋ/ | /təwŋ/ |
| Li Rong | /kɔŋ/ | /tuŋ/ |
| Wang Li | /kɔŋ/ | /tuŋ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /kɔŋ/ | /tuŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | jiāng | dōng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | gong$^1$ | dung$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤroŋ tˤoŋ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*kroːŋ toːŋ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 江 | 東 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | jiāng | dōng |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ kæwng › | ‹ tuwng › |
| Old Chinese | /*kˁroŋ/ | /*tˁoŋ/ (< *tˁoŋʔ ?) |
| English | (Yangzi) river | east |
| 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 | 江 | 東 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| No. | 3995 | 2435 |
| Phonetic component | 工 | 東 |
| Rime group | 東 | 東 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 江 | 東 |
| Old Chinese | /*kroːŋ/ | /*toːŋ/ |
| Notes | | 種（種籽）初文，甲金文象種皮甲坼萌生根芽， 參敕字陳字注 |

### Etymology 1

Between Wuhu and Nanjing, the Yangtze River flows south to north. The east side of the river is on the southern bank.

#### Proper noun

江東
* (literary) the south bank of the Yangtze River between Wuhu and Nanjing; (in general) area south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze
* (historical) Sixty-Four Villages East of the River, Jiangdong (a community of Amur Oblast, Russia)

##### Descendants

* → English: Jiangdong

### Etymology 2

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 江東(こうとう) (kōtō, “Kōtō”)

#### Proper noun

江東
* (～區) Kōtō (a special ward of Tokyo prefecture, Japan)

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Korean 강동 (Gangdong).

#### Proper noun

江東
* (～區) Gangdong (a district of Seoul, South Korea)

### Coordinate terms

* 江南 (Jiāngnán)
* 江西 (Jiāngxī)
* 江北 (Jiāngběi)

## Japanese

Kanji in this term :
| 江 | 東 |
| こう Grade: S | とう Grade: 2 |
| on'yomi ||

### Proper noun

江(こう)東(とう) • (Kōtō)
* Kōtō (one of 23 special wards in Tokyo prefecture, Japan)
* Jiangdong (a district of Zhejiang, China)

## Korean

Hanja in this term :
| 江 | 東 |

### Proper noun

江東 • (Gangdong) (hangeul 강동)
* hanja form of 강동 (“a county of North Korea”)