A name from a poem
江月
Pinyin jiāng yuèusually a girl’s name
The river moon that shines the same in every age.
What’s wished for
The river moon looks the same year after year — from “Spring River, Flowers, Moon, Night.” Steady kindness that keeps watch.
Where it comes from
江月年年只相似
jiāng yuè nián nián zhǐ xiāng sì
“the river moon, year after year, looks just the same.”
— Zhang Ruoxu, “Spring River in Flower on a Moonlit Night” (春江花月夜)
About the two characters
- 江
- river; in older Chinese, the Yangtze
- 月
- the moon
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