Yalu

[ yah-loo; Chinese yah-ly ]

noun

, Pinyin, Wade-Giles.

1. a river in E Asia, forming part of the boundary between Manchuria and North Korea and flowing SW to the Yellow Sea. 300 miles (483 km) long.

Yalu

/ ˈjɑːˌluː /

noun

1. a river in E Asia, rising in N North Korea and flowing southwest to Korea Bay, forming a large part of the border between North Korea and NE China. Length: 806 km (501 miles)

Example Sentences

From this nerveless, forsaken Korean land I rode down upon the sandy islands of the Yalu.

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The Han, watering the central provinces of the country, and the Yalu in the north, are the two principal ones.

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Instead of that they advanced themselves, beat a small Russian army at the Yalu, and pressed on.

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In 1903, it was announced that a Russian company had obtained a timber concession on the Yalu River.

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Beyond the Yalu, forty miles wide, was the strip of waste that constituted the northern frontier and that ran from sea to sea.

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