Huang He

American  

[hwahng hœ] / ˈʰwɑŋ ˈhœ /

(Older Spelling) Hwang Ho

noun

Pinyin.

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

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Huang He British  

/ ˈhwæŋ ˈhiː /

noun

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

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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

The Tigris- Euphrates, Nile, Indus, and Huang He Valleys were fertile, sunny, well-watered breadbaskets with long stretches of bottomland that practically invited farmers to stick seeds in the soil.

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