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江
江 ＝ 氵 ＋ 工
ㄐㄧㄤ · jiāng
noun — (large) river; the Yangtze
字源 FORM — what the parts do
氵義water
{g,k,h}↔{j,q,x}IFgōng → jiāng — g and j are one family; the final shifts ong → iang
Water (氵) with 工 gōng for sound — g and j split from one old initial. First a name: the River, the 長江. The south's big rivers took their word from it; the north's took 河, after the Yellow River.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
船到江心，兩岸退成兩條灰線——水（氵）寬得看不到頭。
Mid-river, both banks thin to gray lines — water (氵) wider than the eye can finish.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)長江— the River — the Yangtze, a proper name
→江、大河— a great river — 江河、珠江常用
⇒江南、江湖— the river country — south of it, and out on it
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension