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hú

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English Definition	lake
Simplified Script	湖
Traditional Script	Same
Pinyin	hú
Effective Pinyin (After Tone Sandhi)	Same
Zhuyin (Bopomofo)	ㄏㄨˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping)	wu⁴
Part of Speech	(名) noun
Measure Words	个, 片
Proficiency Test Level	HSK.v3=2 TOCFL=3

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Words With Same Head Word
湖南	húnán	Hunan province in south central China, abbr. 湘, capital Changsha 长沙
湖北	húběi	Hubei Province (Hupeh) in central China, abbr. 鄂, capital Wuhan 武汉
湖南省	húnán shěng	Hunan Province in south central China, abbr. 湘, capital Changsha 长沙
湖北省	húběi shěng	Hubei Province (Hupeh) in central China, abbr. 鄂, capital Wuhan 武汉
湖泊	húpō	lake

Words With Same Tail Word
江湖	jiānghú	rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武侠); (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde; (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
西湖	xīhú	Xihu or West lake (place name); West Lake in Hangzhou 杭州, Zhejiang; Xihu or Hsihu township in Miaoli county 苗栗县, northwest Taiwan
太湖	tàihú	Lake Tai near Wuxi City 无锡, bordering on Jiangsu and Zhejiang, one of China's largest freshwater lakes
芜湖	wúhú	Wuhu prefecture level city in Anhui
东湖	dōnghú	Donghu district of Nanchang city 南昌市, Jiangxi

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