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Lake Tai
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English
Alternative forms
en Tai Lake
Etymology
en cmn - 太湖 the Great Lake Tài Hú.
Pronunciation
en /leɪk ˈtaɪ/
tīcf. Tai Lake 1864 2
en aɪ 2
Proper noun
Lake Tai
a large freshwater lake west of Shanghai in eastern China
en 1801 John Walker (vaccinator) John Walker The Universal Gazetteer 3rd https://archive.org/details/universalgazette00walk_0/ London 1040962275 SOUTCHEOU, a city of the firſt rank, in the province of Kiangnan, in China, beautifully and agreeably ſituated on a river which communicates with the Lake Tai.
en 1939 Hsiao-tung (zh 費孝通) Fei zh:江村經濟<t:Peasant Life in China> https://archive.org/details/peasantlifeinchi0000feih/ London w:George Routledge and Sons 823027574 20963296M 9–10 https://archive.org/details/peasantlifeinchi0000feih/page/10/ The village chosen for my investigation is called Kaihsienkung, locally pronounced kejiug’on. It is situated on the south-east bank of Lake Tai, in the lower course of the Yangtze River and about eighty miles west of Shanghai.
en JULY 15, 2020 David Stanway Residents at China's giant lake unfazed as rainfall breaks records Giles Elgood https://web.archive.org/web/20220515143250/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-floods-lake-idUKKCN24G1KY 15 May 2022 w:Reuters Environment At Lake Tai on the border of the wealthy coastal provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, water levels hit 4.49 metres on Wednesday, 0.69 metres above the official warning level, according to government data.Though still short of the 4.97-metre record set in 1999, Lake Tai is on the rise. Nearby Shanghai is already taking precautions, opening its sluice gates to discharge excess floodwaters.
en
Synonyms
en Lake Taihu
en Taihu Lake
en Taihu, en Tai Hu
Translations
lake
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 太湖 Tài Hú
Japanese: ja 太湖 たいこ, Taiko
References
Further reading
en 1998 Tai Lake Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 3085 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/3085/ 1
Anagrams
en aaeiklt Tai Lake
en calques
en Places in China