Original: Yangtze River, also spelled Yangtse River, Yangzi River and Yangtze Kiang, is derived from Yangzi Jiang, the local name for a stretch of the lower Yangtze near Yangzhou. â Yangziâ was the name of a village and site of an ancient ferry crossing, and Jiang is one of the Chinese words for river.
Simplified: The Yangtze River, or Yangzi, or Chang Jiang, is a river in China.