huangpu
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.86 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A tributary of the Yangtze in Shanghai Municipality in China.
Example Sentences
- "Shang-hai, situated 31°14'7" lat. N. and 121029' long. E., stretches nearly 10 miles along the l. bank of the Huang-p’u, on the opposite bank of which stands the suburb of P’u-tung."
- "In 1864, Sir McDonald Stephenson, an eminent British engineer, arrived in China to impress the advantages of railways on China, but his scheme was pigeonholed. The next scheme was the Woosung Railway, from Shanghai on the Huangpu river to Woosung at its mouth, a distance of 12 miles."
- "The first mill to send its Chinese workers home was the Nikka Number 8 Mill down the Huangp’u River from Shanghai at its Wusung entry to the vast Yangtze. The neighboring Wing On mill under Chinese owners continued to hum. There at Wusung Port was also the Chinese fortress guarding both the entrance to Shanghai’s waterway and the arterial Yangtze."
- "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."
- "An explosion hit an oil refinery in Guangzhou, in the Guangdong province in South China early on Thursday, triggering a fire, the Hong Kong Free Press reported. According to the report, the blast occurred in an industrial zone in Huangpu district and no casualties have been reported."
Etymology
The atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 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.
Word Breakdown
- Root: 黃浦, 黃埔