hung-hu
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.49 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Honghu.
Example Sentences
- "On November 25, 1931, the Politburo warned the leaders of this soviet area that it was wrong to abandon the Hung-hu Lake base and flee north; the poor advice having originated with Teng, the Politburo ordered the Provincial Committee to censure Teng, which it did in a resolution passed on December 9, 1931, charging him with escapism, pessimism, and the like, and requesting the Politburo to remove him from all work and subject him to Party discipline."
- "In Hung-hu, on the Hupeh-Hunan border, Ho Lung began to organize a new army from the farmers of the two provinces."
- "They have constructed such major water conservancy projects as the Chang [3361] River reservoir which irrigates 3 million mou of farmland, the Hsin-tien-men [2450 1131 7024] River, and the drainage sluices in the new dikes along Hung-hu Lake."
- "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."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 洪湖, -