Huangpu

See also: Huángpǔ

English

A map of Shanghai c. 1888, the original urban core that now forms most of Huangpu District

Alternative forms

• Whangpoo (dated)
• Whampoa

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

1. A tributary of the Yangtze in Shanghai Municipality in China.
   • [1912, “Chiang-su”, in Northern China, The Valley of the Blue River, Korea‎^[1], Hachette & Company, →OCLC, page 293:

     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.]

   • 1915 October 1, Charles Davis Jameson, “The Status of Chinese Railways”, in Railway Age Gazette‎^[2], volume 59, number 14, New York, page 602, column 1:

     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.

   • [2001, Donald A. Jordan, “The Last Straw at Shanghai”, in China's Trial by Fire: The Shanghai War of 1932‎^[3], Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 19:

     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.]

   • 2022 April 7, Brenda Goh, David Kirton, “Shanghai vows to improve food deliveries as discontent grows over COVID curbs”, in Gerry Doyle, Kim Coghill, Nick Macfie, editors, Reuters‎^[4], 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.

2. A district of Shanghai, China.

Related terms

• Pudong
• Puxi

 

Translations

river; district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黃浦 / 黄浦 (zh) (Huángpǔ)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can

See also

• Yangjingbang

 

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huangpu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1323, column 1

Etymology 2

The atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 黃埔 / 黄埔 (Huángpǔ).

Proper noun

Huangpu

1. A district of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
   • 2015 December 23, Apeksha Nair, “Explosion hits Guangzhou oil refinery - media”, in Sandra Maler, editor, Reuters‎^[6], archived from the original on 11 March 2023, World News‎^[7]:

     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.

French

Alternative forms

• Houang-Pou (obsolete)

Proper noun

Huangpu m

1. the Huangpu (river in Shanghai)

   Holonym: Shanghaï

Related terms

• Pudong
• Puxi

 

See also

• Yangjingbang