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Mandarin · pinyin jiàng#

purple-red

Mandarin · pinyin Jiàng#

capital of the Jin State during the Spring and Autumn Period (770-475 BC)

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絳: Look up this written character
绛: jiàng · deep red; river in Shanxi province

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4 · jiang4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

gong3

Cantonese word readings for 絳. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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character · Etymology 1

crimson (a kind of deep red)
Used in place names.

character · Etymology 2

(Hokkien) Used in ideophones.

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