Editing Zhejiang (section)

==Etymology==
The province's name originates from the [[Zhe River]] ({{lang-zh|s={{linktext|浙江}}|p=Zhè Jiāng|labels=no}}), the former name of the [[Qiantang River]] which flows past Hangzhou and whose mouth forms [[Hangzhou Bay]]. It is usually understood as meaning "Crooked" or "Bent River", from the meaning of [[Chinese language|Chinese]] {{lang|zh|折}},<ref>''[[People's Daily Online]]''. "[http://www.people.com.cn/GB/shenghuo/1090/2435218.html Origin of the Names of China's Provinces] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427100058/http://www.people.com.cn/GB/shenghuo/1090/2435218.html|date=27 April 2016}}." {{in lang|zh}}.</ref> but is more likely a [[phono-semantic compound]] formed from adding {{lang|zh|{{linktext|氵}}}} (the "water" [[Chinese radical|radical]] used for river names) to phonetic {{lang|zh|{{linktext|折}}}} ([[Pinyin]] ''zhé'' but reconstructed [[Old Chinese]] *''tet''),<ref>Baxter, William &&nbsp;al. ''Baxter-Sagart Old Chinese Reconstruction.'' Accessed 20 May 2012.</ref> preserving a [[proto-Wu]] name of the local [[Yue (state)|Yue]], similar to [[Yuhang District|Yuhang]], [[Mount Xianglu|Kuaiji]] and [[Yangtze|Jiang]].{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}