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Hwang Ho en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • hwängʹ hōʹ

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete spelling of Huang He.
    alt of Huang He
    • For the last 500 miles (800 km) of its trip to the sea, the Hwang Ho passes over a giant flat plain. 1981, Melvin Berger, “The Hwang Ho”, in Disastrous Floods and Tidal Waves, Franklin Watts, →ISBN, page 20:
    • In the opposite direction the farthest outposts of Chinese civilization were located on either side of the mouth of the Hwang Ho, which then entered the Gulf of Chihli near the modern Tientsin. 1922, Carl Whiting Bishop, “Geographical Factor in the Development of Chinese Civilization”, in Geographical Review, volume 12, number 1, page 29:
    • A new steel-producing centre has arisen recently on the Great Bend of the Hwang Ho. 1974, D. J. Dwyer, editor, China Now: an Introductory Survey with Readings, Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 223: