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Hongze
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Hóngzé
English
Hongze Lake
Hongze District
Alternative forms
en Hungtse, en Hung-tse
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 洪澤, bestowed on the lake by Emperor Yang of Sui in 616 out of pleasure encountering rain after an inspection tour through drought-afflicted areas.
Pronunciation
en /ˈhɒŋzə/
ho͝ong′dzŭ′Hungtze Lake 815 2
en Hong ze
Proper noun
en lake p/Jiangsu c/China.
en district prefecture-level city/Huai'an p/Jiangsu c/China.
en January 30, 2019 Yanzhong Huang If a Government Can’t Deliver Safe Vaccines for Children, Is It Fit to Rule? w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20190130133723/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/opinion/china-vaccine-scandal-legitimacy.html 30 January 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/opinion/china-vaccine-scandal-legitimacy.html 0362-4331 1645522 Opinion Earlier this month, hundreds of aggrieved parents gathered outside the government office in Jinhu County, in the eastern province of Jiangsu, demanding an explanation for why 145 infants had been administered expired doses of the polio vaccine.This month after the scandal in Jinhu, a video circulated on Weibo and WeChat showing a meeting with local officials and residents from a neighboring district, Hongze.
Translations
lake
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 洪澤湖
Mandarin: cmn 洪澤湖
Japanese: ja 洪沢湖 こうたくこ, Kōtaku Ko
district
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 洪澤
Mandarin: cmn 洪澤 Hóngzé
Japanese: ja 洪沢 こうたく, Kōtaku
References
Further reading
en 1998 Hongze Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1305 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1305/ 1