Huang Ho

From Mandarin 黃河／黄河 (Huáng Hé, literally “Yellow River”) Wade–Giles romanization: Huang² Ho².[1]

Huang Ho

1. Alternative form of Huang He (Yellow River)
   • 1928, Henri Maspero, “The Origins of the Chinese Civilizations”, in C. W. Bishop, transl., Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1927‎, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 438:

     All the hill country between the Valley of the Huang Ho and its tributaries, the Lo, the Yi, etc., as far as the Huai Mountains, was likewise peopled by the Jung—the Jung of the Lo, of the Yi, of Yang-chiu, of Man or Mao, etc.

   • 2007, Laurie Burnham, Rivers‎, Chelsea House, →ISBN, page 43:

     A tumultuous waterway, the Yangtze ranks second after the Amazon in terms of discharge. Fed by copious amounts of melting snow and also heavy rains, the river's flow is 10 times greater than China's Huang Ho (Hwang River, Huanghe; also known in English as the Yellow River).

   • 2015, Jeff Probst, Amazing Places‎, Puffin Books, page 40:

     Known popularly as the Yellow River, the Huang Ho is considered the deadliest river in the world.

• “Huang Ho, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Huang Ho m (Cyrillic spelling Хуанг Хо)

1. Huang He

   Synonym: Hoanguo