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Chapoo

Chapoo 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

Origin of Chapoo

A romanization of Mandarin Chinese 乍浦 (Zhàpǔ, “sudden bank”). Compare Wade-Giles romanization Cha4-p'u3.

Questions about Chapoo

What is Chapoo the alternative form of?
Chapoo is the alternative form of Zhapu.

Words near Chapoo in the dictionary

  1. chapmanites
  2. chapmanship
  3. Chapmanslade
  4. chapmen
  5. chapo
  6. Chapoo
  7. chapos
  8. chapp
  9. chappa
  10. chappal
  11. chappals

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chapoo (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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