Huang Ho

English

Map including part of HUANG HO (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 黃河／黄河 (Huáng Hé, literally “Yellow River”) Wade–Giles romanization: Huang² Ho².

Proper noun

Huang Ho

1. Alternative form of Huang He (Yellow River): a major river in northern China, passing through Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Shandong provinces as well as Ningxia and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regions.
   • 1928, Henri Maspero, “The Origins of the Chinese Civilizations”, in C. W. Bishop, transl., Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1927‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 438:

     All the hill country between the Valley of the Huang Ho and its tributaries, the Lo, the Yi, etc., as far as the Huai Mountains, was likewise peopled by the Jung—the Jung of the Lo, of the Yi, of Yang-chiu, of Man or Mao, etc.

   • 2007, Laurie Burnham, Rivers‎^[2], Chelsea House, →ISBN, page 43:

     A tumultuous waterway, the Yangtze ranks second after the Amazon in terms of discharge. Fed by copious amounts of melting snow and also heavy rains, the river's flow is 10 times greater than China's Huang Ho (Hwang River, Huanghe; also known in English as the Yellow River).

   • 2015, Jeff Probst, Amazing Places‎^[3], Puffin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 40:

     Known popularly as the Yellow River, the Huang Ho is considered the deadliest river in the world.

Translations

Huang He — see Huang He

Further reading

• “Huang Ho, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Huang Ho m (Cyrillic spelling Хуанг Хо)

1. Yellow River, Huang He (a major river in northern China, passing through Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Shandong provinces as well as Ningxia and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regions)

   Synonym: Hoanguo