Jialing

[ jyah-ling ]

noun

1. a river in central China, flowing E and S to the Yangtze River. 695 miles (1,119 km) long.

Example Sentences

Wide swaths of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers, which meet in the city, have dried up, drawing people to the exposed riverbed.

From Seattle Times

Some date the city’s hotpot tradition to the 16th century, when porters ate meat and vegetables boiled with fiery spices after a hard day’s work on the docks on the Jialing River.

From Seattle Times

The Jialing River, a tributary of the Yangtze, has shrunk in places to less than half the width of its channel through the heart of Chongqing.

From Seattle Times

The city skyline is reflected in a pool left on the dry riverbed of the receding Jialing river, a tributary of the Yangtze, that is approaching record-low water levels during a regional drought in Chongqing, China, August 20, 2022.

From Reuters

It has been three days since Shang Jialing saw her 7-year-old son swept away in the floods that struck her hometown of Xinxiang.

From Washington Post