Honghu

See also: hónghú and hong-hù

English

Alternative forms

• Hung-hu (Wade–Giles)

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

1. A county-level city in Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
   • 1981, Eastern Horizon‎^[1], volume 20, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19:

     At Honghu
     At Honghu, it was a pleasure to meet the same county leader who came around with me here in 1963.

2. 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^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 June 2011, Asia Pacific‎^[3]:

     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:

  Mandarin: 洪湖 (zh) (Hónghú)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Honghu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1304, column 3