Ho-p'u

Ho-p'u

See also: hopu

English

Map including HO-P'U (HOPPO) 合浦) (AMS, 1954) →OCLC

Etymology

From Mandarin 合浦 (Hépǔ), Wade–Giles romanization: Ho²-pʻu³.

Proper noun

Ho-p'u

1. Alternative form of Hepu
   • 1958, Cyril Birch, transl., Stories from a Ming Collection‎, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, LCCN 59-9848, OCLC 475450207, OL 24938241M, page 91:

     One day he visited the pearl-fisheries at Ho-p'u.

   • 1967, Yü, Ying-shih, “Overseas Trade”, in Trade and Expansion in Han China: A Study in the Structure of Sino-Barbarian Economic Relations‎, University of California Press, LCCN 67-12492, OCLC 651358801, page 181:

     From this passage we know not only of the prosperity of the pearl trade of Ho-p’u but also of the existence of a keen competition in the trade between Ho-p’u and Chiao-chih. Moreover, the fact that merchants of Ho-p’u regularly went to Chiao-chih to import cereals also reveals a close economic intercourse between the two areas conducted through coastal trade.

Translations

Hepu — see Hepu

Anagrams

• Houp, ouph