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Hwang Ho

British  
/ ˈwæŋ ˈhəʊ /

noun

  1. a former transliteration of the Chinese name for Yellow River

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Overhead, their aircraft roared on their way to bomb Chinese towns strung out along the Hwang Ho, the River of Sorrow.

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Its Chinese name, Hwang Ho, is taken from hwang tu, the "yellow dirt" which it carries down in great quantity from Shansi and Shensi.

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But throughout the last millennium extensive systems of dikes have been gradually thrown up to restrain such rivers as the yellow Hwang Ho, and huge drainage canals have been dug.

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