Talk:Heilongjiang

Does "long" mean "dragon"?
The etymology section (which I edited for clarity and concision) still says that Heilongjiang is the literal translation of "Black Dragon River" and says that "hei" means or meant "black". That would seem to imply that "long" means dragon or river, and jiang means dragon or river. This ambiguity is frustrating. "Literally" does not mean that the words are in the same order. I tried to find out the information but I couldn't and the citation was of no use to me. Maybe a better citation is needed? Polar Apposite (talk) 08:06, 14 November 2022 (UTC)


 * I edited the article after satisfying myself using Google Translate and Google Search results, and the talk page at the Wikipedia Amur River article, that "long" means dragon and "jiang" means river, but I couldn't find a decent citation. Searching for "long river China" returned "Yangtse River" and a bunch of other irrelevant (for my purpose) hits. Polar Apposite (talk) 08:30, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I know this is a year old: 黑 means 'black', 龙 means 'dragon', and 江 means 'river'. You got a lot of results for the Yangtze because the original sense for 江 was simply 'the Yangtze', which then expanded to mean 'rivers in general'.
 * I saw a very lovely translation of 黑龙江 as "Blackdrake Rush", maybe I'd even consider that a literal translation, if not an encyclopedic one. Remsense 聊  18:53, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

JPL's Photojournal at PIA25895: Heilongjiang Province, China
Here is the JPL's Photojournal of the PIA25895: Heilongjiang Province, China. Rjluna2 (talk) 18:01, 30 May 2023 (UTC)