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Jingpo

Syllables: Jing·poUK/ˈd͡ʒɪŋpəʊ/US/ˈd͡ʒɪŋpoʊ/

Jingpo proper noun: a lake on the Mudan River in northern China. Also the alternative spelling of Jingpho.

Proper noun

Jingpo

  1. A lake on the Mudan River in northern China.
    • 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...[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...[1971, Rewi Alley, “Mutankiang”, in Eastern Horizon, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, columns 1, 2

Also used as

Jingpo is also the alternative spelling of Jingpho.

Origin of Jingpo

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.

Words formed from Jingpo

Words that rhyme with Jingpo

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Questions about Jingpo

What does Jingpo mean?
Jingpo means a lake on the Mudan River in northern China.
What part of speech is Jingpo?
Jingpo is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Jingpo?
Jingpo is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɪŋpəʊ/ (UK).

Words near Jingpo in the dictionary

  1. jingoized
  2. jingoizes
  3. jingoizing
  4. jingos
  5. Jingpho
  6. Jingpo
  7. jings
  8. Jingsha
  9. Jingsha Jiang
  10. Jingshan
  11. Jingulu

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