三江并流 |
Sān Jiāng Bìng liú |
the Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas, a region in northwestern Yunnan where three major rivers – the Jinsha River (upper Yangtze) 金沙江, Lancang River (Mekong) 澜沧江, and Nu River (Salween) 怒江 – run roughly parallel to each other for over 300 kilometers, recognized as a World Heritage Site |
三 |
Sān |
surname San |
三 |
sān |
three / 3 |
江 |
Jiāng |
surname Jiang / (bound form) Yangtze River / (bound form) Jiangsu Province (abbr. for 江苏) |
江 |
jiāng |
river / CL:条,道 |
并 |
bìng |
and / furthermore / also / together with / (not) at all / simultaneously / to combine / to join / to merge |
并 |
bìng |
to combine / to amalgamate |
并 |
Bīng |
short name for Taiyuan 太原 |
并 |
bìng |
variant of 并 |
流 |
liú |
to flow / to disseminate / to circulate or spread / to move or drift / to degenerate / to banish or send into exile / stream of water or sth resembling one / class, rate or grade |