湖南 | hú nán | Hunan province in south central China, abbr. 湘 , capital Changsha 长沙 | |
湖北 | hú běi | Hubei Province (Hupeh) in central China, abbr. 鄂 | |
湖泊 | hú pō | lake | |
江湖 | jiāng hú | 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 | |
湖畔 | hú pàn | lakeside |
1 | Why not have dinner at Houhai - on the lake? | |
2 | Clerk: Never go to the center of the lake. | |
3 | See the lake over there? | |
4 | My school is near a small lake. | |
5 | Every day, Anthony and I would drive to the other side of the lake and sit on a grassy knoll to look at the property and dream of what it would be like to live there. |