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Jingpo
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jīngpò
English
+ Lake
Jingpo Lake
Pronunciation
en /ˈd͡ʒɪŋpəʊ/ UK
en /ˈd͡ʒɪŋpoʊ/ US
jĭng′pô′Kingpo Lake or Chingpo Lake 949 1
en əʊ 2
en Jing po
Etymology 1
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn - Chinese pronunciation for 鏡泊湖 mirror lake, named for the supposed clarity of its waters.
Proper noun
A lake on the Mudan River in northern China.
en 1938 April Chingpo Power Project Revised The Far Eastern Review https://archive.org/details/far-eastern-review-1938.4/ Shanghai XXXIV 4 1767520 151 https://archive.org/details/far-eastern-review-1938.4/page/151/ 2 An extensive alternation of the Manchoukuo Government's project for the establishment of a gigantic State-owned hydroelectric power-house near the Chingpo Lake in Mutankiang Province, is recommended in an official report just submitted by the party of experts which was recently dispatched to the spot to conduct further investigations into the project. on
en 1971 w:Rewi Alley Mutankiang Eastern Horizon https://archive.org/details/sim_eastern-horizon_1977-09_16_9/ Hong Kong Eastern Horizon Press 0012-8813 751117974 9 https://archive.org/details/sim_eastern-horizon_1977-09_16_9/page/9/ 1, 2 Many if not most young people in China like to write poems and the friends who were with me at Chingpo Lake were no exception to the rule.Thirty-six kilometres from the sanitorium at Chingpo Lake, and we came inside the re- mains of the outer walls of the capital of Po- hai Kingdom, of which more anon. on
en March 28, 1982 Stanley Carr Travel Advisory; NORDIC HERITAGE AND WESTERN WAGONS w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20150524115733/https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/28/travel/travel-advisory-nordic-heritage-and-western-wagons.html 24 May 2015 https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/28/travel/travel-advisory-nordic-heritage-and-western-wagons.html 0362-4331 1645522 Section 10 3 He was fishing on a lake called Jingpo Hu in northeast China, caught a bass - which the Chinese call Ao Hua Yu - that weighed more than five pounds -but was told that some of the lake's bass were over 30 pounds.The group then goes to Jingpo Hu (Mirror Lake) for five or six days of fishing - for lake trout and muskellunge as well as bass.
en 2005 Shelley Jiang Let's Go: China https://archive.org/details/letsgochina0000unse/ Let's Go (book series) Let's Go 1st New York w:St. Martin's Press 0-312-32005-1 57045841 9578439M 237 https://archive.org/details/letsgochina0000unse/page/237/ JINGPO LAKE zh 镜泊湖Jingpo, or “Mirror,” Lake, south of Mudanjiang, was formed by volcanic explosions near the Mudan River over 5000 years ago. Despite throngs of summer tourists, Jingpo Lake Reserve can be surprisingly peaceful due to its sprawling size.
Derived terms
en Jingpo Lacus
Translations
lake
References
Further reading
en 1998 Jingpo Lake 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 1450 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1450/ 3
Etymology 2
Proper noun
en Jingpho.
en Places in China