Yalu River
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- proper noun
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río Yalu
- Dandong, a riverside city in Northeast China's Liaoning province, offers great views of North Korea from across the Yalu River.
- Yalu River, North Korea
- bank of the Yalu River
- Yalu River, North
Examples
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A week later, they reached the Yalu River, North Korea's border with communist China.
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The best view of North Korea is from the Crowne Plaza hotel located on the banks of the Yalu River on Binjiang Road.
Blog text (13) -
The banks of the Yalu River could not be a better example of the contrast between Chinese-style capitalism and North Korean communism.
Blog text (13) -
More important to the war effort, secrecy benefited the U.S. because Stalin restricted the use of Soviet aircraft to defensive operations along the Yalu River and took every effort to disguise the Soviet presence.
Academic text (1998) -
These UN victories enabled General Douglas MacArthur to order offensive operations above the 38th parallel, which advanced toward North Korea's Yalu River border with China in October.
Academic text (1998) -
The giant Yalu River marks the boundary between North Korea and China.
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The sun rises over North Korea and the Yalu River, which forms the border between China and North Korea.
Synonyms
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A river in eastern Asia that forms part of the border between North Korea and China
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward toponym formed from a proper name plus the generic noun 'river'; if a learner knows 'Yalu' (the place name) and 'river', the meaning — the river called Yalu that forms the border — is directly compositional. Place-name + category constructions are cross-linguistically common and thus immediately understandable to learners who know the constituents.
Etymology
The name Yalu River may come from an old local word meaning 'boundary' or 'between' because the river runs between China and North Korea. So the name reminds people that this river marks the border and explains why it is famous in history.