Definition of Chu Kiang

1. Noun. A river in southeast China that flows into the South China Sea.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Chu Kiang

Chrysophyceae
Chrysophyllum
Chrysophyllum cainito
Chrysophyllum oliviforme
Chrysophyta
Chrysopidae
Chrysops
Chrysopsis
Chrysopsis mariana
Chrysopsis villosa
Chrysosplenium
Chrysosplenium americanum
Chrysosporium parvum
Chrysothamnus
Chrysothamnus nauseosus
Chu Kiang (current term)
Chuadanga District
Chuang-tzu
Chubi
Chuck
Chuck Berry
Chuck E. Cheese
Chuckie
Chucky
Chugwater
Chukaku-Ha
Chukcha
Chukchi
Chukchi Sea
Chukchian

Literary usage of Chu Kiang

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. On the Coasts of Cathay and Cipango Forty Years Ago: A Record of Surveying by William Blakeney (1902)
"... CHAPTER III ON THE Chu Kiang OK CANTON RIVER "How little we are aware to what future use knowledge, picked up in the most fortuitous way, may be applied ..."

2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1907)
"Key West harbour and approaches. Plan of Key West harbour, plan of northwest channel bar 2881 New chart. Chu Kiang or Canton river, sheet V. Whampoa channel ..."

3. The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature by Samuel Wells Williams (1907)
"The third basin is that south of the Nan ling to the ocean ; it is drained chiefly by the Chu kiang, and its form is much less regular than those of the ..."

4. L. Richard's ... Comprehensive Geography of the Chinese Empire and by Louis Richard (1908)
"It is built on the left bank of the Chu-kiang 3^01 or Pearl River, and its suburbs extend along the river far beyond its walls, above and below the pity- A ..."

5. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1851)
"V. Course of the Chu Kiang or Pearl River 105 ART. VI. Journal of Occurrences : Gov. Bonham a knight-commander of the ..."

6. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"See Chu-kiang. PEARL SAGO, granulated sago meal. See Sago. PEAT, is composed chiefly of the decayed fibres of mosses, and is used as fuel. ..."

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