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

A way to remember it

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.

A picture that makes the shape stick — not a claim about the character’s history.

Draft — written with AI help and not yet read by a person. What that means.