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YALU
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Yalu mean?
• YALU (noun)
The noun YALU has 1 sense:
1. river in eastern Asia; rises in North Korea and flows southwest to Korea Bay (forming part of the border between North Korea and China)
Familiarity information: YALU used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
River in eastern Asia; rises in North Korea and flows southwest to Korea Bay (forming part of the border between North Korea and China)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
Yalu; Yalu River
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Domain region:
Cathay; China; Communist China; mainland China; People's Republic of China; PRC; Red China (a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world)
Holonyms ("Yalu" is a part of...):
D.P.R.K.; Democratic People's Republic of Korea; DPRK; North Korea (a communist country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948)
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