Meaning of Han River | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A major river in South Korea that flows through Seoul.
2. A tributary of the Yangtse flowing through Shaanxi and Hubei, China, with its river mouth in Wuhan
3. A river in Da Nang, Vietnam.

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Examples

“In the one case, a two-storeyed house in Wuchang which has long been needing repairs collapsed and killed the mother and son of the occupier. In the other case, a house built partly on piles at the edge of the Han River above Chiaokou was overturned and the wife and daughter of the tenant were thrown into the river and drowned.”

“Here, more than 14 million people in Hubei would be affected if the project damaged the Han River, the tributary of the Yangtze where the middle route starts, said Du Yun, a geographer at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Wuhan, the provincial capital.”

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