Ho-p'u

See also: hopu

English

Map including HO-P'U (HOPPO) 合浦) (AMS, 1954) →OCLC

Etymology

From Mandarin 合浦 (Hépǔ), Wade–Giles romanization: Ho²-pʻu³.

Proper noun

Ho-p'u

1. Alternative form of Hepu
   • 1958, Cyril Birch, transl., Stories from a Ming Collection‎^[1], Bloomington: Indiana University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 91:

     It remains to tell how Chiang Hsing-ko, one year after he had acquired this lady to look after his home, made another trading expedition into Kwangtung province. One day he visited the pearl-fisheries at Ho-p’u.

   • 1967, Ying-shih Yü, “Overseas Trade”, in Trade and Expansion in Han China: A Study in the Structure of Sino-Barbarian Economic Relations‎^[2], University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 181:

     From this passage we know not only of the prosperity of the pearl trade of Ho-p’u but also of the existence of a keen competition in the trade between Ho-p’u and Chiao-chih. Moreover, the fact that merchants of Ho-p’u regularly went to Chiao-chih to import cereals also reveals a close economic intercourse between the two areas conducted through coastal trade.

   • 1980, Shu-tse P’eng, edited by Leslie Evans, The Chinese Communist Party in Power‎^[3], New York: Monad Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 194:

     Li Chun-hua, first secretary of the Ho-p’u county committee of the CCP in Kwangtung province, and Ho Wen-li, a section head of the Ho-p’u County Cooperative, reported in the Canton Southern Daily in October 1958: […]

Translations

Hepu — see Hepu

Anagrams

• Houp, ouph