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"text": "Firſt of all, There are in China two famous large Rivers, namely Kiang, and the Yellow River... The Yellow River, by ſtrangers ſo called from the colour of the water, occaſioned by the Yellowneſs of the ground, is named Hoang in the Chineſe Language, and ſeems at firſt to be very Mooriſh; but the ſwiftneſs and great force of its running, makes it appear the quite contrary; for with ſo incredible a ſwiftneſs does this River run, that no Ships are able to Sail up againſt its Stream, but are drawn up againſt the ſame by the main ſtrength of a great number of Track-men: which may proceed from its being contracted within ſo narrow bounds; for in ſome places it is but half a mile broad, and in others a little broader, but in a continued courſe, for in length it extends above 800 miles.",
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"ref": "1941, Edgar Snow, The Battle for Asia, New York: Random House, page 26",
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"ref": "2021 July 22, Pei Lin Wu, Rebecca Tan, “Death toll in China floods climbs to 33 as rains spread and more cities call for help”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-22, Asia",
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
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{
"english": "Source of the Yellow River in trad. Chinese mythology",
"word": "Kunlun"
}
],
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{
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"Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations",
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"en:Gansu",
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"en:Inner Mongolia",
"en:Ningxia",
"en:Places in China",
"en:Qinghai",
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"en:Shandong",
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1625, Samuel Purchas, Pvrchas His Pilgrimes, volume III, London, →OCLC, page 340",
"text": "That Riuer of Nanquin which I called (Yamſu or) Ianſu, the ſonne of the Sea, goeth Northward to Nanquin, and then returning ſomewhat Southward, runneth into the Sea with great force; fortie myles from which it paſſeth by Nanquin. And that from hence to Pequin there might bee paſſage by Riuers, the Kings of China haue deriued a large Channell from this to another Riuer, called the Yellow Riuer, ſuch being the colour of that troubled water. This is the other famous Riuer of that Kingdome, in greatneſſe and note, which ariſesth without the Kingdome to the Weſt, out of the Hill Cunlun, conjectured to bee the ſame whence Ganges ariſeth, or one neere to it.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, →OCLC, pages 235–236",
"text": "Firſt of all, There are in China two famous large Rivers, namely Kiang, and the Yellow River... The Yellow River, by ſtrangers ſo called from the colour of the water, occaſioned by the Yellowneſs of the ground, is named Hoang in the Chineſe Language, and ſeems at firſt to be very Mooriſh; but the ſwiftneſs and great force of its running, makes it appear the quite contrary; for with ſo incredible a ſwiftneſs does this River run, that no Ships are able to Sail up againſt its Stream, but are drawn up againſt the ſame by the main ſtrength of a great number of Track-men: which may proceed from its being contracted within ſo narrow bounds; for in ſome places it is but half a mile broad, and in others a little broader, but in a continued courſe, for in length it extends above 800 miles.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1798, Complete View of the Chinese Empire, London, page 400",
"text": "After passing a short stage, through low lands with very different prospects, a succession of good towns and villages, numerous vessels, and crowds of people, indicated the vicinity of the Yellow River, into which the canal falls with a gentle force.\nNovember 2d, the yachts came to the spot where the canal joins the Yellow River.\nThe Yellow River runs at this place with such rapidity that the Chinese sailors deemed it necessary to offer a sacrifice to its Guardian Spirit for a safe passage.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1941, Edgar Snow, The Battle for Asia, New York: Random House, page 26",
"text": "As we rode slowly over the Lunghai Line toward Sianfu, across the brown sun-baked plains of Northern Honan, soon to be flooded when the Chinese breached the Yellow River dikes to stop the advancing Yellow Horde, we passed many troop trains en-route to the front.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2001, Kim Dramer, The Yellow River, Franklin Watts, page 7",
"text": "China's Yellow River, or Huang he, is named for the yellow, sandy silt it carries in its water. This silt, called loess, is almost as fine as flour. Over thousands of years, the northwestern wind blowing from the Gobi Desert has deposited hundreds of feet of loess over northern China. As the Yellow River flows through China, it sweeps away the fine, yellow silt and carries it downriver.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2020 May 11, Anna Sherman, “A Poetic Journey Through Western China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-05-11",
"text": "FOR MORE THAN 2,000 years, a branch of the Silk Road — the 600-mile-long Hexi Corridor — has angled southeast from the Taklamakan and Gobi deserts to the Yellow River loess plains.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2021 July 22, Pei Lin Wu, Rebecca Tan, “Death toll in China floods climbs to 33 as rains spread and more cities call for help”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-22, Asia",
"text": "Central China, where multiple tributaries of the Yellow River crisscross and monsoon rains are exceptionally heavy, has long been subject to flooding.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The chief river of the North China Plain, currently flowing 5,463 km from the Bayan Har Mountains of Qinghai to the Bohai Sea but historically prone to massive floods which caused its course to vary widely over time."
],
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{
"sense": "from Mandarin Chinese",
"word": "Huang He"
},
{
"word": "Huang Ho"
},
{
"word": "Hwang Ho"
},
{
"word": "China's Sorrow"
},
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"word": "Yellow river"
}
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "an-nahr al-ʔaṣfar",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "اَلنَّهْر اَلْأَصْفَر"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḵwānḡḵī",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "خْوَانْغْخِي"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "hwanḡ-hī",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "هْوَانْغْهِي"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "Huanhe",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "Հուանհե"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "holud nodi",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "হলুদ নদী"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "黃河"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "wong⁴ ho⁴",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "黄河"
},
{
"code": "hak",
"lang": "Hakka Chinese",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "黃河"
},
{
"code": "hak",
"lang": "Hakka Chinese",
"roman": "Vòng-hò",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "黄河"
},
{
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "黃河"
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{
"code": "nan-hbl",
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"roman": "N̂g-hô, Hông-hô",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
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"word": "黄河"
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{
"code": "lzh",
"lang": "Literary Chinese",
"roman": "hé",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "河"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "黃河"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Huáng Hé",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "黄河"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Žlutá řeka"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "Chuang-che"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "Den Gule Flod"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Gele Rivier"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "Keltainenjoki"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fleuve Jaune"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Huang He"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "río Amarelo"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Gelber Fluss"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "hvāṅgho",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "ह्वांगहो"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "Sárga-folyó"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Fiume Giallo"
},
{
"alt": "こうが",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "Kōga",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "黄河"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "Sary özen",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "Сары өзен"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "tʊənlei lɨǝŋ",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "ទន្លេលឿង"
},
{
"alt": "黃河",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "Hwangha",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "황하"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Flumen Flavum"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Croceus"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Crocceus"
},
{
"code": "mnc",
"lang": "Manchu",
"roman": "hūwang ho bira",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "ᡥᡡᠸᠠᠩ ᡥᠣ ᠪᡳᡵᠠ"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "Šar mörön",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "Шар мөрөн"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "Xatan gol",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "Хатан гол"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "Rzeka Żółta"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Rio Amarelo"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Huang He"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "Xuanxɛ́",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Хуанхэ́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "Žóltaja reká",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Жёлтая река́"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "Хуанг Хо m Хоангуо"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "Huang Ho m Hoanguo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "Huang He"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "río Amarillo"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "Ilog na Dilaw"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "mâe-náam huang-hŏh",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "แม่น้ำฮวงโห"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "rma chu",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "རྨ་ཆུ"
},
{
"code": "ug",
"lang": "Uyghur",
"roman": "sëriq derya",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "سېرىق دەريا"
},
{
"alt": "黃河",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "Hoàng Hà"
},
{
"code": "za",
"lang": "Zhuang",
"sense": "Main river of the North China Plain",
"word": "Dahvangzhoz"
}
],
"word": "Yellow River"
}
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