东江

恰似一江春水向东流 qiàsìyījiāngchūnshuǐxiàngdōngliú

just like a river of spring water flowing east / Li Yu's most famous image — sorrow, immeasurable, flows on like the river and cannot be stopped

珠江 Zhūjiāng #63,065

Pearl River / major river system of southern China, emptying into the South China Sea at Guangzhou

渠江 Qújiāng

Qu River (tributary of the Jialing River in Sichuan) / Qu River (tributary of the Zi River in Hunan, source of Qujiang Bozi tea)

西江 XīJiāng

Xi River / West River (largest tributary of the Pearl River, flowing through Guangxi and Guangdong)

东帝汶 Dōngdìwèn #77,459

Timor-Leste (East Timor, country in Southeast Asia)

春江潮水连海平 chūnjiāngcháoshuǐliánhǎipíng

the spring river's tide rises level with the sea / (fig.) a vast, merging horizon where river and ocean become one / (lit.) spring-river tide-water joins sea level

春来江水绿如蓝 chūnláijiāngshuǐlǜrúlán

when spring comes, the river water is green as indigo / the river turns a deep blue-green with the season / lit. spring comes — river water — green as indigo

东边日出西边雨 dōngbiānrìchūxībiānyǔ

sun rises in the east while rain falls in the west — a paradoxical, mixed situation; or: feelings that are both 'there and not there' / literally: on the east side, the sun comes out; on the west side, rain

东方风来满眼春 dōngfāngfēngláimǎnyǎnchūn

the east wind blows and spring fills the eye / the east wind brings spring everywhere the eye can see

东风第一枝 dōngfēngdìyīzhī

first branch to bloom in the east wind / (fig.) the earliest harbinger of spring — often a plum blossom / (lit.) east-wind number-one branch / also the name of a classical 词牌 (cí tune pattern)