Meanings
alternative Hung-hu
- 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).
Full word history & related roots →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
Rhymes with Honghu
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Honghu. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Honghu
“Honghu.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Honghu. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Honghu,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Honghu.
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