Huang He

[ hwahng hœ ]

noun

, Pinyin.

1. a river flowing from western China into the Bohai Gulf. 2,800 miles (4,510 km) long.

Huang He

/ ˈhwæŋ ˈhiː /

noun

1. the modern transliteration of the Chinese name (formerly Huang Ho) for the Yellow River

Example Sentences

Large deltas, such as those of the Niger, Huang He and Mekong, have great socio-economic value.

From Nature

“We call it 18 Buddhas coming to Dongguan,” said Huang He, the head of Janus’s smart-factory business, alluding to the followers of the original Buddha.

From New York Times

And the Bohai Sea lost rich fish life after damming reduced by nearly three-quarters the flow of the Huang He, or Yellow River.

From National Geographic

Much as historians of early Eurasia focus on the Tigris-Euphrates, Nile, Indus, and Huang He Valleys, historians of the Americas focus on Mesoamerica and the Andes.

From Literature

Instead, it claimed rights to about two-thirds of the Yellow Sea, based on the extent to which sediments billowing out from China’s Huang He and Yangtze rivers blanket the sea floor.

From Nature