Hepu

English

Alternative forms

• Ho-p'u (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 合浦 (Hépǔ).

Proper noun

Hepu

1. A county of Beihai, Guangxi, China.
   • 2000 August 1, Clay Chandler, “A Golden Goose in Red China? Entrepreneur Bets Millions That Foie Gras Will Fatten Export Figures”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on August 28, 2017‎^[2]:

     Here in Hepu County, an impoverished agricultural district just north of China's border with Vietnam, Chan and his business partners are hatching plans for a mammoth food processing operation they promise will be the world's largest producer of foie gras. […]
     Hepu farmers say they can raise a single goose for less than 40 yuan--about $5. That's a fraction of what competitors in France must spend.

Synonyms

• Hoppo (Postal Romanization, from Cantonese)

Translations

county of Guangxi, China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 合浦 (hap⁶ pou²)

  Mandarin: 合浦 (zh) (Hépǔ)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hepu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1269, column 1

Anagrams

• eh up