Hung-hu
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 洪湖 (Hónghú) Wade-Giles romanization: Hung²-hu².
Proper noun
Hung-hu
- Alternative form of Honghu
- 1972, Helen Foster Snow, “Ho Lung, China's Red Robin Hood”, in The Chinese Communists, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Company, →ISBN, LCCN 77-104236, OCLC 640093917, OL 4574418M, page 294:
- In Hung-hu, on the Hupeh-Hunan border, Ho Lung began to organize a new army from the farmers of the two provinces.
- [1977 March, “Book Section”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 3, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, ISSN 0012-8813, OCLC 751117974, page 50, column 2:
- A pity that Agnes never had the opportunity of meeting Ho Ying, the sister of General Ho Lung, who herself was so gallant a commander of forces around the Hung Hu Lake in Hupei in the early thirties before she gave her life for her cause.]
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Translations
Honghu — see Honghu