Huangpu

• Whangpoo (dated)
• Whampoa

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.

Huangpu

1. A tributary of the Yangtze in Shanghai Municipality in China.
   • 1915 October 1, Charles Davis Jameson, “The Status of Chinese Railways”, in Railway Age Gazette‎, 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.

   • 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, 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.

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

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

Huangpu

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

     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.

• Houang-Pou (obsolete)

Huangpu m

1. the Huangpu (river in Shanghai)

   Holonym: Shanghaï