Etymology

K'un-ming Lake

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The story

Partial calque of Mandarin 昆明湖 (Kūnmíng Hú), Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻun¹-ming² Hu².

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.