How is Yangtze pronounced?
What does Yangtze mean in English?
Chang Jiang literally means the “Long River.” In Anhui, the river takes on the local name Wǎn Jiāng after the shorthand name for Anhui, wǎn (皖). And Yángzǐ Jiāng (揚子江; 扬子江) or the “Yangzi River”, from which the English name Yangtze is derived, is the local name for the Lower Yangtze in the region of Yangzhou.