江南

Traditional form:

江南

Pinyin (reading):

Jiāngnán

Definitions:

• south of Changjiang or Yangtze river
• south of the lower reaches of Changjiang
• often refers to south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces
• a province during Qing times
• in literature, refers to the sunny south
• Gangnam (district in Seoul, South Korea)

Characters:

• 江 - large river; the Yangtze; surname
• 南 - south; southern; southward

Traditional characters:

• 江 - large river; the Yangtze; surname
• 南 - south; southern; southward