Etymograph

English

Huangpu

Huangpu comes from Mandarin 黃浦.

  1. Mandarinmodern黃浦Huángpǔliterally ‘Yellow Bank’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1915Huangpu

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Mandarinmodern黃浦Huángpǔliterally ‘Yellow Bank’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1915Huangpu

Earliest quotation: 1915, Charles Davis Jameson, The Status of Chinese Railways: “In 1864, Sir McDonald Stephenson, an eminent British engineer,…”

The story

The atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 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.

Every English word from Mandarin 黃浦

Another origin of Huangpu

  1. Mandarinmodern黃埔Huángpǔ
  2. EnglishtodayHuangpu

Today it means

name A tributary of the Yangtze in Shanghai Municipality in China.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Mandarin 黃浦 / Huangpu

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