Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

honghu

/hɔŋ.hu/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: Hong-hu
IPA: /hɔŋ.hu/

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A county-level city of Jingzhou, Hubei, China.

name

Hong Lake, a lake in Jingzhou, Hubei, China.

Example Sentences

"At Honghu At Honghu, it was a pleasure to meet the same county leader who came around with me here in 1963."
"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."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 洪湖 (Hónghú).

Word Breakdown

Root: -

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /hɔŋ.hu/

Inflected Forms

Hung-hu (alternative)

Rhymes With

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Questions

How do you pronounce honghu?: The recorded pronunciation is /hɔŋ.hu/.
What does honghu mean?: A county-level city of Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
Where does honghu come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 洪湖 (Hónghú).

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