Whangpoo

Anglicization of Shanghainese 黃浦／黄浦 (hhuaan phu).

Whangpoo

1. Dated form of Huangpu.
   • 1940, Commerce Reports‎, →OCLC, page 230:

     Some large vessels that do not wish to berth in the Whangpoo anchor in the roadstead off the entrance to the river and discharge into lighters. The greater number of ocean-going vessels, however, proceed up the Whangpoo to Shanghai.

   • 1968, “SHANGHAI (SHANG-HAI)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎, volume 20, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 345, column 1:

     Shanghai does not escape the problems besetting delta cities. It lies about 14 mi. (23 km.) I above the mouth of the Whangpoo River (Huang-p'u Chiang), a small tributary of the Yangtze near its estuary. Daily, rising tide water from the Pacific shunts Yangtze River water up the Whangpoo.