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
- 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
- Jingpo Lacus
Words that rhyme with Jingpo
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
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