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hutung

hutung noun: dated spelling of hutong.

Noun

hutung (plural hutungs or hutung)

  1. Dated spelling of hutong.
    • These great streets are crossed by many broad streets, and these again by an infinite number of narrow streets, called Hutungs, or lanes.1866 April 23, W[illiam] Lockhart, “VIII.—Notes on Peking and Its Neighbourhood”, in W[illiam] S[weetland] Dallas, editor, The Quarterly Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, volume...
    • In the afternoon a party of us strolled out to the Chinese city [Peking], through the Great Meridian Gate, to examine the curiosity shops. The narrow streets or hutungs in this quarter reminded me of Canton.1881, Samuel Pasfield Oliver, chapter III, in On and Off Duty, being Leaves from an Officer’s Note-book, London: W[illiam] H[oughton] Allen & Co., […], →OCLC, page 59

Forms of hutung

pluralhutungs
pluralhutung

Questions about hutung

What does hutung mean?
Hutung means dated spelling of hutong.
What part of speech is hutung?
Hutung is a noun.
What is the plural of hutung?
The plural of hutung is hutungs.

Words near hutung in the dictionary

  1. hutukhtu
  2. hutukhtus
  3. hutuktu
  4. hutuktus
  5. Hutuness
  6. hutung
  7. hutungs
  8. Hutus
  9. Hutzel
  10. Hutzels
  11. Hutzler

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