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Yuan River¹

Where it comes from

Partial calque of Mandarin 沅江.

proper noun

  1. A river in Hunan, China. It is said at Hankau that boats can travel up stream 4000 li by three different routes—the Yangtse Chiang, the Yuan river in Hu Nan, and the Han river.

    Similar: Yuan Jiang, Yuanjiang

Yuan River²

Where it comes from

Partial calque of Mandarin 元江 (Yuán Jiāng).

proper noun

  1. The Chinese stretch of the Red River, prior to its crossing the Vietnamese border Wildlife protection officials told a press briefing the elephants safely crossed a bridge over the Yuan River, returning south towards a nature reserve administered by the city of Puer.

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中文沅江

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@misc{yuan_river_2026,
  title = {Yuan River},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/yuan%20river},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}