Chinese surname · rank 75
江
江 is read as jiāng.
Pinyin
jiāng
Script forms
Simplified and traditional 江
Basic meaning
large river; Yangtze River
Five element
Water
Origin
Time: Western Zhou to Spring and Autumn Jiang-state tradition; Western Zhou to Spring and Autumn tradition, 1046-476 BCE
Place: Jiang state, commonly associated with today's Zhengyang or Huaibin area, Henan Province
Origin note
A major Jiang surname tradition traces the surname to the ancient state of Jiang in the Huai River region. Descendants and state people used Jiang as a surname after the state disappeared.
Historical figures
江淹
444-505 CE · Southern Dynasties writer
A literary figure remembered in the idiom about exhausted talent.
江永
1681-1762 CE · Qing scholar
A Qing evidential scholar known for classics and phonology.