Hung-hu

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Hung-hu

  1. Alternative form of Honghu
    • 1972, Helen Foster Snow, “Ho Lung, China's Red Robin Hood”, in The Chinese Communists, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Company, →ISBN, LCCN 77-104236, OCLC 640093917, OL 4574418M, page 294:
      In Hung-hu, on the Hupeh-Hunan border, Ho Lung began to organize a new army from the farmers of the two provinces.
    • [1977 March, “Book Section”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 3, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, ISSN 0012-8813, OCLC 751117974, page 50, column 2:
      A pity that Agnes never had the opportunity of meeting Ho Ying, the sister of General Ho Lung, who herself was so gallant a commander of forces around the Hung Hu Lake in Hupei in the early thirties before she gave her life for her cause.]

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