What is the Chinese name for the Yellow River?
Yellow River and it was the most prosperous region in early Chinese history. There are frequent devastating floods and course changes produced by the continual elevation of the river bed, sometimes above the level of its surrounding farm fields. Early Chinese literature including the "Yu Gong" or "Tribute of Yu" dating to the Warring States period (475–221 BC) refers to the Yellow River as simply (Old Chinese: "*C.gˤaj", modern Chinese (Pinyin) "Hé"), a character that has come to mean "river" in modern usage. The first appearance of the name (Old Chinese: "*N-kʷˤaŋ C.gˤaj"; Middle Chinese: "Huang Ha") is in the Book of
Yellow Medicine River Yellow Medicine River The Yellow Medicine River is a tributary of the Minnesota River, 107 miles (173 km) long, in southwestern Minnesota in the United States. Via the Minnesota River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 665 square miles (1,722 km²) in an agricultural region. Its name is a translation of the Dakota name for the river, , ("huta" meaning "root," "zi" meaning "yellow," and "kapi" meaning "they dig"), The Yellow Medicine River issues from Lake Shaokatan in Shaokatan Township in western Lincoln County, approximately six miles (10 km) southwest of Ivanhoe,