Chapu
Chapu is the alternative form of Zhapu.
Meaning of Zhapu
Proper noun
Zhapu
- 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 Chapu
An unhyphenated variant of the Wade-Giles romanization of Mandarin Chinese 乍浦 (Zhàpǔ, “sudden bank”)
Questions about Chapu
- What is Chapu the alternative form of?
- Chapu is the alternative form of Zhapu.
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