The Mandarin Chinese name of the bridge is "Nánjīng Chángjiāng Dàqiáo", which means "the Big Bridge across the Long River in the Southern Capital". ("Chángjiāng" or "Long River" is the Chinese name for the Yangtze River, and "Nanjing" means "Southern Capital".) It is written in the traditional characters used by Chinese people on Taiwan and in Hong Kong and in the simplified characters used by mainland China.