Wu-hu

See also: wūhū, Wuhu, Wúhú, and Wǔhú

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 蕪湖／芜湖 (Wúhú), Wade–Giles romanization: Wu²-hu².[1]

Pronunciation
  • enPR: wo͞oʹho͞oʹ

Proper noun

Wu-hu

  1. Alternative form of Wuhu
    • 1865, John Francis Davis, Chinese Miscellanies: A Collection of Essays and Notes‎, London: John Murray, →OCLC, pages 178–179:
      On the 30th October the strength of the stream and the want of wind obliged us to stop at Wu-hu, a very considerable town about ten miles above the "Pillar Hocks," and dependent upon Taeping....Quitting Wu-hu on the 31st October, we started with a north-west wind,
    • 1939, Virginia Holton, The Beeps‎, New York: John Day Company, →OCLC, page 133:
      As my husband's ship stopped for a day or two at Kiu-kiang, Anking, and Wu-hu, enroute to Nanking, I arrived three days before his ship anchored off the bund.

Translations
Wuhu — see Wuhu

References
  1. Wuhu, Wade-Giles romanization Wu-hu, in Encyclopædia Britannica

Further reading
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