Honghu
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 洪湖 (Hónghú).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /hɔŋ.hu/
- Rhymes: -uː
Proper noun
Honghu
- A county-level city in Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
- Hong Lake, a lake in Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
- 2011 June 2, Edward Wong, “Three Gorges Dam Is Said to Hurt Areas Downstream”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 June 2011, 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
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Honghu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1304, column 3
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