Honghu

Hong·hu
H4O1N1G2H4U1
US/hɔŋ.hu/

proper noun

A county-level city of Jingzhou, Hubei, China.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Hung-hu

  1. A county-level city of Jingzhou, Hubei, China.

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

    1981, Eastern Horizon, volume 20, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19
  2. Hong Lake, a lake in Jingzhou, Hubei, China.

    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.

    2011 June 2, Edward Wong, “Three Gorges Dam Is Said to Hurt Areas Downstream”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2011, Asia Pacific

Origin

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

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 洪湖
  • 洪湖county-level city in central China
Chinese Mandarin 洪湖, 洪湖
  • 洪湖 (Hónghú)county-level city in central China
  • 洪湖 (Hónghú)lake in central China
Japanese 洪湖, 洪湖
  • 洪湖 (Kōko)county-level city in central China
  • 洪湖 (Kōko)lake in central China

Rhymes & wordplay

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Cite this entry
APA

Honghu. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Honghu

MLA

“Honghu.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Honghu. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Honghu,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Honghu.

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