yangtze kiang

Questions about yangtze kiang

What does yangtze kiang mean?

yangtze kiang means "the longest river of Asia; flows eastward from Tibet into the East China Sea near Shanghai".

What is another word for yangtze kiang?

Close synonyms include Chang Jiang, Changjiang, Chang, Yangtze, Yangtze River. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is yangtze kiang a common word?

yangtze kiang is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.