Giang Hộ

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 江戶, composed of 江 (“river”) and 戶 (“door”), orthographic borrowing from Japanese 江戸 (Edo)

Proper noun

Giang Hộ

  1. (historical) obsolete form of Ê-đô (= Edo): the historical capital of Japan
    • 1981, Nghiên cứu Nghệ thuật [Research into Art]:
      Thủ đô của Nhật là Tô-ki-ô (Đông Kinh), tên cũ là Ê-đô (Giang Hộ), nằm về phía đông đảo lớn Hôn-xiu.
      Japan's capital is Tokyo, formerly known as Edo, located to the west of Honshu.
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