Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Wuhu.
As my husband's ship stopped for a day or two at Kiu-kiang, Anking, and Wu-hu, enroute to Nanking, I arrived three days before his ship anchored off the bund.
1939, Virginia Holton, The Beeps, New York: John Day Company, →OCLC, page 1332 more examples
On the 30th October the strength of the stream and the want of wind obliged us to stop at Wu-hu, a very considerable town about ten miles above the "Pillar Hocks," and dependent upon Taeping....Quitting Wu-hu on the 31st October, we started with a north-west wind,
1865, John Francis Davis, Chinese Miscellanies: A Collection of Essays and Notes, London: John Murray, →OCLC, pages 178–179Ju-kao, Hsing-hua and Huai-an in northern Kiangsu, Chia-ting and Ching-chiang in southern Kiangsu, and above all, Wu-hu in Anhwei, became important processing centers.
1978, Martin Heijdra, “The socio-economic development of rural China during the Ming”, in The Cambridge History of China, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 506
Origin
- Mandarin蕪湖 /芜湖
- EnglishWu-hu
From Mandarin 蕪湖 /芜湖 (wúhú), Wade–Giles romanization: Wu²-hu².
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