Huangpu
See also: Huángpǔ
English

A map of Shanghai c. 1888, the original urban core that now forms most of Huangpu District
Etymology 1
The atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 黃浦/黄浦 (Huángpǔ, literally “Yellow Bank”), a clipping of 黃歇浦/黄歇浦 (Huáng Xiē pǔ, literally “Huang Xie Bank”), named in honor of Lord Chunshen, a statesman of the Kingdom of Chu during the Warring States Era closely associated with Songjiang and Shanghai.
Proper noun
Huangpu
- A tributary of the Yangtze in Shanghai Municipality in China.
- 2022 April 7, Goh, Brenda; David Kirton, “Shanghai vows to improve food deliveries as discontent grows over COVID curbs”, in Gerry Doyle; Kim Coghill; Nick Macfie, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 08 April 2022:
- Lockdowns for the city's residents east of the Huangpu river began on March 28, while lockdowns for the rest of the city started on April 1. The exercise originally was intended to last five days.
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- A district of Shanghai, China.
Translations
See also
Etymology 2
The atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 黃埔/黄埔 (Huángpǔ).
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huangpu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1323, column 1
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