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Yangpu

Syllables: Yang·pu/jɑŋpu/

Yangpu proper noun: a district of Shanghai, China.

yangpu: a district of Shanghai, China
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Proper noun

Yangpu

  1. A district of Shanghai, China.
    • Shanghai has built steelworks, chemical plants, and factories for machine tools. The one I visited in Yangpu, with 5,200 workers, manufactures about forty different types of machines; the factory is proudest of its grinding machines, some of which attain very great precision.1966 April 7, Robert Guillain, “Shanghai's Repentant Capitalists”, in The Reporter, volume 34, number 7, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38, column 3
    • The actual turnover of leading cadres in district committees was not as sweeping as it was at the highest level of municipal government. For example, Chang Ching-piao, the First Secretary of the Yangpu District Party Committee, after undergoing mass criticism and reform became the chairman of the...1973, Victor Nee, “Revolution and Bureaucracy: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution”, in China's Uninterrupted Revolution: From 1840 to the Present, 1st edition, New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN...
    Synonyms:
    Yangshupu, Yangtzepoo, Yangtszepoo

Synonyms of Yangpu

Forms of Yangpu

alternative formYang-p'u
alternative formYangpoo

Origin of Yangpu

From the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 楊浦 /杨浦 (Yángpǔ, literally “Poplar Bank”), a 1950 clipping of earlier 楊樹浦 /杨树浦 (Yángshùpǔ, literally “Poplar Tree Bank”), after the name of a creek that formerly ran through the area beside present-day Lanzhou Rd.

Questions about Yangpu

What does Yangpu mean?
Yangpu means a district of Shanghai, China.
What part of speech is Yangpu?
Yangpu is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Yangpu?
Yangpu is pronounced /jɑŋpu/.

Words near Yangpu in the dictionary

  1. yangonas
  2. yangonin
  3. Yangoura
  4. yangpan
  5. yangpans
  6. Yangpu
  7. yangqin
  8. yangqins
  9. Yangqu
  10. Yangquan
  11. yangs

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