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Cha-pu

Cha-pu is the alternative form of Zhapu.

Meaning of Zhapu

Proper noun

Zhapu

  1. A town in Pinghu, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China, on the northern shore of Hangzhou Bay and important under the Qing as a port and military garrison.
    • In that year the large Hangzhou garrison was subdivided when a Left Wing (zuo yi) brigade-general was created at Zhapu to oversee the naval garrison on the shores of Pinghu County. Zhapu was the port of Hangzhou.1990, Pamela Kyle Crossley, Orphan Warriors: Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 69

Forms of Cha-pu

alternative formChapu

Origin of Cha-pu

From the Wade-Giles romanization of Mandarin Chinese 乍浦 (Zhàpǔ) Wade-Giles romanization: Cha⁴-pʻu³.

Questions about Cha-pu

What is Cha-pu the alternative form of?
Cha-pu is the alternative form of Zhapu.

Words near Cha-pu in the dictionary

  1. cha-ching
  2. cha-chinged
  3. cha-chinging
  4. cha-chings
  5. cha-om
  6. Cha-pu
  7. chaabi
  8. chaas
  9. chaashni
  10. chaat
  11. chaats

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Cha-pu (page history and authors); Zhapu (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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