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jiāng — (bound form) Yangtze River; (bound form) Jiangsu Province (abbr. for 江苏)

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Where it comes from

Water, 氵, with 工 for the sound. It first named one river in particular — the Yangtze — before it became the word for any great river.

Words it turns up in

江南江山江湖

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