乌苏里江

烏蘇里江

Wūsūlǐ Jiāng

proper noun

Meanings

1 Ussuri River, river on the China-Russia border in eastern Heilongjiang, flowing north into the Amur

Characters

Examples

HSK 7-9

乌苏里江是中国和俄罗斯的界河。

Wūsūlǐ Jiāng shì Zhōngguó hé Éluósī de jièhé.

The Ussuri is a border river between China and Russia.

HSK 7-9

每年秋天，赫哲族渔民在乌苏里江上捕大马哈鱼。

Měi nián qiūtiān, Hèzhézú yúmín zài Wūsūlǐ Jiāng shàng bǔ dàmǎhāyú.

Every autumn Hezhen fishermen catch chum salmon on the Ussuri.

Tips

history

Under the 1860 Convention of Peking (中俄北京条约) the Qing gave up the land east of the Ussuri, down to the coast where Vladivostok now stands, and the river became the border.

culture

The song 乌苏里船歌 (Ussuri Boat Song), written in 1962 on Hezhen folk tunes, made the river known across China.

Stroke Order

乌 wū

苏 sū

里 lǐ

江 jiāng