Yalu

[ yah-loo; Chinese yah-ly ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Pinyin, Wade-Giles.

a river in E Asia, forming part of the boundary between Manchuria and North Korea and flowing SW to the Yellow Sea. 300 miles (483 km) long.

Yalu

/ ˈjɑːˌluː /

a river in E Asia, rising in N North Korea and flowing southwest to Korea Bay, forming a large part of the border between North Korea and NE China. Length: 806 km (501 miles)

From this nerveless, forsaken Korean land I rode down upon the sandy islands of the Yalu.

The Han, watering the central provinces of the country, and the Yalu in the north, are the two principal ones.

Instead of that they advanced themselves, beat a small Russian army at the Yalu, and pressed on.

In 1903, it was announced that a Russian company had obtained a timber concession on the Yalu River.

Beyond the Yalu, forty miles wide, was the strip of waste that constituted the northern frontier and that ran from sea to sea.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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