Huai River

See also: Huai river

English

Alternative forms

• Huai river

Etymology

Partial calque from Mandarin 淮河 (Huái Hé).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)

Proper noun

Huai River

1. A major river in central China, now a tributary of the Yangtze.
   • 1895, Herbert J. Allen, “Ssŭma Chʻien's Historical Records”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 97:

     The Huai river and the sea formed the boundaries of Yangchow.

   • 1952 January-February, Soong Ching Ling, “Welfare Work and World Peace”, in China Reconstructs‎^[2], volume 1, number 1, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

     In other sectors of our national life, giant and fundamental solutions have been undertaken for age-old problems, such as the floods with which the Huai river has plagued our people for thirty centuries.

   • 1955, Richard L. Walker, China Under Communism: The First Five Years‎^[3], New Haven: Yale University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12:

     Those "counterrevolutionaries" who were not executed were subjected to "reform through labor," a euphemism for slave labor, and participated in the intensive work which began on railway and road construction and water conservation schemes. The most important of the latter was the vaunted Huai River flood control project, which has been the subject of praise in all the accounts of fellow travelers who have visited China.

   • 1969, Joseph Kitagawa, editor, Understanding Modern China‎^[4], Quadrangle Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 49:

     In 1938 the great stream was deflected to the south by the Chinese in a misplaced effort to delay the advance of Japanese forces moving southward from T'ien-ching (Tientsin) and Pei-ching (Peking); and it flowed southeastward into the Huai river system and thence through a series of lakes and the Grand Canal down into the Yangtze drainage area.

   • 2011, Lisa See, Dreams of Joy‎^[5], Oxford: ISIS Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 157:

     It’s now called Huaihai Road, which commemorates the second great campaign of 1949, when Mao’s soldiers advanced from the Huai River to the sea, putting them in position to take Shanghai.

   • 2013, Ma Jian, translated by Flora Drew, The Dark Road‎^[6], Penguin Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 152:

     The creek connects the Xi River to factories along the Huai River, but it’s too shallow for large boats to navigate.

   • 2020 July 19, Muyu Xu, Xu Jing, Tom Daly, “China raises flood alert levels along Huai River”, in Lincoln Feast, editor, Reuters‎^[7], archived from the original on 19 July 2020, Environment:

     China on Sunday raised the flood alert level in the Huai River region in the country’s east to Level II from Level III, the second highest on its four-tier scale, after days of torrential downpours and amid expectations of further heavy rainfall.
     Ten reservoirs on the Huai River have seen water levels exceeding warning levels by as much as 6.85 metres, according to the Huaihe River Commission of China’s Ministry of Water Resources.
     The 1,000km (620 mile) Huai River flows through major agriculture and manufacturing hubs in Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Huai River.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Huai He, Huai Ho

Translations

river

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 淮河 (zh) (Huái Hé)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 회하 (hoeha)
• Manchu: ᡥᡡᠸᠠᡳ
  ᡥᠣ
  ᠪᡳᡵᠠ (hūwai ho bira)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huai”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1320, column 2
• “Huai River”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.