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/jˈɛloʊ rˈɪvər/ Listen

Yellow River

noun

A major river of Asia in northern China; flows generally eastward into the Yellow Sea; carries large quantities of yellow silt to its delta. Synonyms: Huang He, Hwang Ho.

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... has probably never been surpassed as the cause of a vast amount of human suffering. Although the provinces named suffered the most from the prevalent drought, the suffering was general over the whole of Northern China, from Shantung and Pechihli to Honan and the course of the Yellow River. At first the government, if not apathetic, was disposed to say that the evil would be met by the grant of the usual allowance made by the provincial governors in the event of distress; but when one province after another was absorbed ...

— China • Demetrius Charles Boulger

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... away in China, walking along the banks of the great Yellow River. Everything was very strange. The people talked an entirely different language from his own; had on different clothes; and, instead of the nice shaven head and top-knot of the Japanese, every one wore a long pigtail of hair, that dangled at his ...

— Japanese Fairy World - Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan • William Elliot Griffis

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Words linked to "Yellow River" : Communist China, Hwang Ho, PRC, People's Republic of China, Cathay, mainland China, Red China, china, river