Jingpo

Jing·po
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UK/ˈd͡ʒɪŋpəʊ/US/ˈd͡ʒɪŋpoʊ/

proper noun

A lake on the Mudan River in northern China.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

Jingpo1

proper noun
  1. A lake on the Mudan River in northern China.

    JINGPO LAKE 镜泊湖 Jingpo, or “Mirror,” Lake, south of Mudanjiang, was formed by volcanic explosions near the Mudan River over 5000 years ago. Despite throngs of summer tourists, Jingpo Lake Reserve can be surprisingly peaceful due to its sprawling size.

    2005, Shelley Jiang, editor, Let's Go: China (Let's Go), 1st edition, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 237
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    An extensive alternation of the Manchoukuo Government's project for the establishment of a gigantic State-owned hydroelectric power-house near the Chingpo Lake in Mutankiang Province, is recommended in an official report just submitted by the party of experts which was recently dispatched to the spot to conduct further investigations into the project.

    [1938 April, “Chingpo Power Project Revised”, in The Far Eastern Review, volume XXXIV, number 4, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 151, column 2

    Many if not most young people in China like to write poems and the friends who were with me at Chingpo Lake were no exception to the rule.[…] Thirty-six kilometres from the sanitorium at Chingpo Lake, and we came inside the re- mains of the outer walls of the capital of Po- hai Kingdom, of which more anon.

    [1971, Rewi Alley, “Mutankiang”, in Eastern Horizon, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, columns 1, 2

    He was fishing on a lake called Jingpo Hu in northeast China, caught a bass - which the Chinese call Ao Hua Yu - that weighed more than five pounds -but was told that some of the lake's bass were over 30 pounds.[…] The group then goes to Jingpo Hu (Mirror Lake) for five or six days of fishing - for lake trout and muskellunge as well as bass.

    1982 March 28, Stanley Carr, “Travel Advisory; NORDIC HERITAGE AND WESTERN WAGONS”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, Section 10, page 3

Jingpo2

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of Jingpho.

Origin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 鏡泊湖/镜泊湖 (Jìngpō Hú, literally “mirror lake”), named for the supposed clarity of its waters.

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Jingpo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Jingpo

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