汉江 is the name on today's maps; old texts and poems say 汉水. Where it meets the Yangtze at Wuhan, the two rivers give the area its name, 江汉.
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Song Zhiwen's (宋之问) quatrain 《渡汉江》 (Crossing the Han River) has the lines 近乡情更怯，不敢问来人: 'the nearer home, the more afraid I grow, and dare not ask the people coming from there'.
