WordTaiwan frequency #5,311
江湖
ㄐㄧㄤ ˙ㄏㄨ
“rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; the wider world beyond official society; the milieu of wuxia tales; (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld; (Taiwan) a worldly-wise person with rich life experience”
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- 澎湖ㄆㄥ ㄏㄨˊPenghu; an archipelago and county in the Taiwan Strait, administered by Taiwan.
- 浙江ㄓㄜˋ ㄐㄧㄤZhejiang, a coastal province in eastern China; also the Qiantang River, which flows through the province.
- 長江ㄔㄤˊ ㄐㄧㄤYangtze River; longest river in China, flowing from the Tibetan Plateau to the East China Sea near Shanghai.