Huang Ho
English
editEtymology
editFrom Mandarin 黃河/黄河 (Huáng Hé, literally “Yellow River”) Wade–Giles romanization: Huang² Ho².[1]
Proper noun
editHuang Ho
- 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
editHuang He — see Huang He
References
edit- ^ Yellow River, (Wade-Giles romanization) Huang Ho, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Further reading
edit- “Huang Ho, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Serbo-Croatian
editProper noun
editHuang Ho m (Cyrillic spelling Хуанг Хо)
- 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
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