江湖

Chinese

		river	lake
simp. and trad. (江湖)		江	湖

Note: Toneless - usually the sense of “man of experience”.

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: gong¹ wu⁴
  - Yale: gōng wùh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gong¹ wu⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: gong¹ wu⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /kɔːŋ⁵⁵ wuː²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kông-fù
  - Hakka Romanization System: gong´ fuˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: gong¹ fu²
  - IPA: /koŋ²⁴ fu¹¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kang-ô͘
  - Tâi-lô: kang-ôo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kang'oo
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² ɔ²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kaŋ³³ ɔ²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² ɔ¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kaŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ ɔ²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kaŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ ɔ²³/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: kaan hhu (T1)
  - IPA ^(key): /kɑ̃⁵⁵ ɦv̩ʷ²¹/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	江	湖
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiāng	hú
Middle Chinese	‹ kæwng ›	‹ hu ›
Old Chinese	/*kˤroŋ/	/*[ɡ]ˤa/
English	(Yangzi) river	lake
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

江湖

(literally) rivers and lakes
- 泉涸，魚相與處於陸，相呴以溼，相濡以沫，不如相忘於江湖。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  泉涸，鱼相与处于陆，相呴以湿，相濡以沫，不如相忘于江湖。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: Zhuangzi, circa 3^rd – 2^nd centuries BCE
  Quán hé, yú xiāngyǔ chǔ yú lù, xiāng xǔ yǐ shī, xiāng rú yǐ mò, bùrú xiāngwàng yú jiānghú. [Pinyin]
  When the springs are dried up, the fishes collect together on the land. Than that they should moisten one another there by the damp about them, and keep one another wet by their slime, it would be better for them to forget one another in the rivers and lakes.
(figuratively) all corners of the country; (around) the whole country
(figuratively) wandering life; private and plebian domain beyond the control of the government; underworld
(figuratively) place of residence of a hermit; reclusive place
(figuratively) vagrant; itinerant (entertainer, quack doctor, swindler etc.)
(figuratively) old experienced person; man of experience

Sino-Xenic (江湖):

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