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Honghu
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hónghú hong-hù
English
Alternative forms
en Hung-hu Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn - Chinese pronunciation for 洪湖.
Pronunciation
en /hɔŋ.hu/ GA
ho͝ong′ho͞o′
en uː 2
en Hong hu
Proper noun
en county-level city prefecture-level city/Jingzhou p/Hubei c/China.
en 1981 Eastern Horizon https://books.google.com/books?id=F7dDAQAAIAAJ 20 0012-8813 1567283 19 At HonghuAt Honghu, it was a pleasure to meet the same county leader who came around with me here in 1963.
Hong Lake, a lake in Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
en June 2, 2011 w:Edward Wong Three Gorges Dam Is Said to Hurt Areas Downstream w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20110606081044/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/world/asia/03china.html 06 June 2011 https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/world/asia/03china.html 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific The Honghu Lake, in central China's Hubei Province, has dried up in the drought.At Honghu Lake, fish spawning has been affected, said Zeng Xiaodong, leader of the Honghu marshland management office. “The drought has done considerable damage to the ecological environment of Honghu Lake,” he said.
Translations
county-level city in central China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 洪湖
Mandarin: cmn 洪湖 Hónghú
Japanese: ja 洪湖 こうこ, Kōko
Manchu: mnc ᡥᡡᠩ ᡥᡡ
lake in central China
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 洪湖 Hónghú
Japanese: ja 洪湖 こうこ, Kōko
Further reading
en 1998 Honghu 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 1304 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1304/ 3