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Hung-hu

Hung-hu is the alternative form of Honghu.

Meaning of Honghu

Proper noun

Honghu

  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 of Hung-hu

From Mandarin 洪湖 (Hónghú) Wade–Giles romanization: Hung²-hu².

Questions about Hung-hu

What is Hung-hu the alternative form of?
Hung-hu is the alternative form of Honghu.

Words near Hung-hu in the dictionary

  1. hung wei ping
  2. hung with
  3. hung, drawn and quartered
  4. hung, drew and quartered
  5. Hung-an
  6. Hung-hu
  7. hung-over
  8. Hung-shan
  9. hung-wei-ping
  10. Hung.
  11. Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hung-hu (page history and authors); Honghu (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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