He flew straight back to Shanghai on the same day.
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沪 is the one-character nickname for Shanghai, used on car plates (沪A) and in compounds like 京沪 (Beijing-Shanghai). It comes from an old bamboo fishing-trap name for the area.
The three-drop water radical, left-side form of 水. Shanghai sits on the Yangtze delta, and the name traces back to a riverside fishing device, so water is apt.