Kunming Lake
See also: K'un-ming Lake
English edit
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Etymology edit
Partial calque of Mandarin 昆明湖 (Kūnmíng Hú, literally “Kunming lake”).
Proper noun edit
- A lake in Beijing, China, on the grounds of the Summer Palace
- 1974 July 17 [1974 July 16], “Chinese Take to Water To Mark Mao's Swim”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 September 2023, page 13[2]:
- At Peking's Kunming Lake, processions of people swam between lines of crowded, flag‐bedecked boats accompanied by martial music on loudspeakers.
- Synonym of Lake Dian
Translations edit
lakes