Honghu

Honghu

See also: hónghú and hong-hù

English

Alternative forms

• (from Wade–Giles) Hung-hu

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 洪湖 (Hónghú).

Proper noun

Honghu

1. A county-level city in Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
   • 1981, Eastern Horizon‎, volume 20, ISSN 0012-8813, OCLC 1567283, 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

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, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1304, column 3